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Published inOct 2023
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Gareth Eagar
Gareth Eagar
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Gareth Eagar

Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
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Building a Modern Data Platform on AWS

As we near the end of this book, we will review high-level concepts around building a modern data platform on AWS. We could easily devote another whole book to this topic alone, but in this chapter, we will provide at least an overview to give you a strong foundation on how to approach the build-out of a modern data platform.

There are many different pieces to the puzzle of building a modern data platform, and this chapter will build on many of the other topics we have covered in this book (such as data meshes and modern table formats) alongside introducing topics we have not yet covered (such as Agile development and CI/CD pipelines).

The goal of this chapter is to help you think through how to bring together many of the different concepts you have learned in this book to create a data platform that supports both the data producers and data consumers in your organization. This chapter is not a complete guide to building a data platform...

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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614426

Author (1)

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Gareth Eagar

Gareth Eagar has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, starting in South Africa, working in the United Kingdom for a while, and now based in the USA. Having worked at AWS since 2017, Gareth has broad experience with a variety of AWS services, and deep expertise around building data platforms on AWS. While Gareth currently works as a Solutions Architect, he has also worked in AWS Professional Services, helping architect and implement data platforms for global customers. Gareth frequently speaks on data related topics.
Read more about Gareth Eagar