Wrangling Geospatial Data with GeoPandas and Apache Sedona on AWS

Introduction: This article will walk through two leading solutions for processing and analyzing geospatial data: GeoPandas for efficient in-memory processing on a single machine, and Apache Sedona, which is built to run on distributed compute clusters like Apache Spark, Flink, and Databricks. We will show coding examples of both and how to set up GeoPandas locally and Apache Sedona in an AWS […]

The Evolution of Demand Response with OpenADR 2.0b

Introduction: The rising demand for energy, fueled by factors such as the adoption of electric vehicles, the constant construction of new data centers, and the increased use of electric devices, is presenting significant challenges to the modern energy grid in terms of capacity, reliability, and adaptability. OpenADR (Open Automated Demand Response) is a protocol developed […]

Creating Custom Hadoop Events in EventBridge on AWS

Introduction: Event driven architecture as defined by Amazon is a system whose architecture uses events to trigger and communicate between decoupled services and is common in modern applications built with microservices. An event is a change in state or an update. Event-driven architectures have three key components: event producers, event routers, and event consumers. A […]