3 Ways Ecommerce Stores Benefit From the Cloud
As ecommerce continues to grow, online retailers are faced with the challenge of managing large volumes of data while maintaining a secure and scalable platform. This is where Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud comes in, providing ecommerce stores with the tools to manage their data and maintain a high level of security.
Bronze, Silver & Gold Awards for Healthy Workplace
We made it! Mid December 2021 we received our first Bronze award for being recognised as a healthy and forward thinking technology company. Just four months later and we've gone on to pass both our Silver and Gold award.
Jason Mathew Joins Firemind as a Cloud Engineer
We’re kicking off 2022 with a new starter to the Firemind family. Last week we welcomed a new Cloud Engineer to the team, and today, we find out a little about our newest addition – Jason Mathew.
ISO 27001 Certified 2 Years Running!
24 months have passed since we decided to become an ISO certified business. Within that time we’ve undertaken a wealth of tasks to update our processes, ensure a regular governance over internal and external documentation and files as well as adhering to the most stringent of rules.
Firemind Team Go Head-To-Head at Laser Tag
January 28th! Talk about a fast month! Seems like only yesterday that our entire team was tucking into Christmas dinners, relaxing with friends and family and counting down the days until 2022!
Workload Optimisation and Improved Audit Logging in Amazon Redshift
Today’s insight takes a broader look at two elements shaping Amazon Redshift into the data warehousing behemoth of the 21st century. We begin with the recent AWS article that highlights how the new automatic query rewrite feature can optimise analytical workloads.
Build Event-Driven Data Quality Pipelines With AWS Glue DataBrew
As businesses collect more and more data to drive core processes like decision making, reporting and machine learning (ML), they continue to be met with difficult hurdles! Ensuring data is fit for use with no missing, malformed or incorrect content is first priority for many of these companies – and that’s where AWS Glue Databrew steps in!
Reduce the Cost and Complexity of Machine Learning Preprocessing
A week ago, Nate Bachmeier, AWS Senior Solutions Architect, and Marvin Fernandes, Solutions Architect, wrote an insightful article over on the AWS Machine learning Blog. Within it, they detailed a solution overview that enabled both reduced complexity and costs, during Machine Learning preprocessing! That statement there really caught our attention. Let’s dig deeper!
Collecting, Archiving and Retrieving Surveillance Data With AWS
As a company based within the UK, we are no stranger to the presence of CCTV cameras and the importance of them. With a reported 5.2 million cameras in the UK actively filming back in late 2020 (that’s one camera per 13 people), it’s safe to say that surveillance and it’s uses are an everyday part of most people’s lives.
Jason Golding Joins Firemind as a Solutions Architect
Last week brought even further expansion to the Firemind team as our Solutions Architects received a plus one! We’re delighted to welcome Jason Golding as our most recent Solutions Architect 🥳.
New Features in Amazon Managed Grafana
During late August 2021, AWS made Amazon Managed Grafana generally available. At re:Invent, they launched some new features, specifically for new plugins. This AWS insight provides you with the high-level overview and what to expect.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announced at AWS re:Invent
The ability to build systems that can predict business outcomes has become very important within the last few years. This ability lets you solve problems and move faster by automating slow processes and embedding intelligence in almost all IT systems.