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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration and ETL service. It can extract, manipulate, and transform data from a wide range of sources, allowing you to create accurate data models that can be imported into a database, loaded into an analytics platform, or used for machine learning models.

AWS Glue can be controlled using both the Console and CLI commands to allow you to configure automated data handling and data loading into your databases.

There are three components that AWS Glue uses:

  • AWS Glue Data Catalog: This is a central repository that holds information about your data. It acts as an index to your schema and data stores, which helps control your ETL jobs.
  • Job Scheduling System: This is a highly customizable scheduler. It can handle not only time-based scheduling but also contains options to allow it to watch for new files or new data to be processed, as well as event-driven scheduling.
  • ETL Engine: AWS Glue's ETL engine is the...
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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