# data-ish

Welcome to data-ish.info

A series of data-ish blogs - mostly about data, sometimes about other topics.

Often involving AWS (opens new window), sometimes involving Azure (opens new window), one day (maybe) involving GCP (opens new window).
PostgreSQL (opens new window) comes up quite a bit too.

# General

This is the main blog, and a helpful catch all for posts that don't fit anywhere else.

# Best In Test

This (likely to become a) series looks at creating labs to measure and quantify the difference between different patterns and approaches. Examples of topics include looking at adding a cache on the database read path and buffering writes through a queue. The intention is to make any such labs reproducable and extensible.

There isn't any intention to do a "which is cheaper AWS or Azure" or "which is faster GCP or AWS".

# Data The Hard Way

There are loads of great tools, services, applications & platforms out there. It would be madness to ignore them and attempt to write everything by hand. However, relying on black box "magic" with no understanding of how they work isn't always the best idea either.

In this series we look into how we can do things "the hard way", in the hope that such an exercise is both interesting and instructive.

We might dig into how some PAAS offerings work (such as AzureML or Sagemaker), how some developer tooling works (perhaps database migration & comparison tools), or maybe adding aggregation and caching to an S3 analytics solution (without using Snowflake or Redshift).