IT Services

*Database + Versioning = Efficiency * We were so intrigued by this serious mathematical equation here at Elixirr Digital that we had to engage our best mathematician Zdravko from the Data & Analytics team to prove it out. After months of heavy research and an additional college degree, Zdravko had found that we were missing a […]

Data storage and data lake are topics often discussed in the IT industry. Apache Iceberg is a key piece to achieving an open lake house architecture so you can reduce the cost of data warehouses. Iceberg is an open table format created by Apache that can manage large collections of files as tables, and it […]

This guide covers the setup of AWS CodePipeline’s Source step which uses cross-account access. This Source step will poll for changes in a CodeCommit repository located within a separate account from the one that the CodePipeline is located in. Through the rest of this guide, Source account will represent the account that holds our CodeCommit repository, and […]

Every organisation has multiple teams – departments which often have to share data in order to promote unified and accurate decisions about their product or services. Within a classic Data Warehouse, Data Sharing can be time consuming, stressful and often dependent on DBAs additional tooling. Additionally, when it comes to accurate testing, users often have […]

The long history of EBS in providing storage to EC2 instances taught us that users need consistent performance. With that in mind, in 2012 AWS introduced EBS Provisioned IOPS or IO1 Volumes and EBS optimised instances. They allow you to specify a consistent IOPS rate when you create the volume. Up until 2017 developers had […]

AWS Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Customers can store data for as little as $1 per terabyte […]

During my last project we had an interesting challenge that we solved rather creatively. We were in the process of developing a critical business dashboard. The dashboard contained a huge amount of data and in order to be responsive, it had to be cached. The dashboard was to be used by users both internal and […]

LDAP LDAP stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is an application protocol used to manage and access the directory service. Every email program has a personal address book, but how can we look up an address for someone who’s never sent you email? How can an organisation keep one centralised up-to-date phone book that […]

Netezza is a data warehousing appliance that uses an Asymmetric Massive Parallel Processing Architecture. The Netezza architecture is driven by two fundamental principles- process close to the data source and do not move data unless absolutely necessary. Among the two principles, the latter is implemented primarily by commodity hardware Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). FPGA […]