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The 10 Hardest Places to Eat in New York City
Here at RJMetrics we build software to help our clients make data-driven decisions. Sometimes, we get the itch to peek at data from other companies to learn a little bit about how they work. Earlier...
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The 10 Hardest Places to Eat in San Francisco
Here at RJMetrics we build software to help our clients make data-driven decisions. Sometimes, we get the itch to peek at data from other companies to learn a little bit about how they work. Earlier...
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How to save acquisition data from Google Analytics in your database to create...
In this post we will explain how to save Google Analytics (GA) acquisition channel information into your own database – namely the source, medium, term, content, campaign, and gclid parameters that...
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A CTO’s Guide to Building Your Startup’s Data Infrastructure
Everyone wants to run a data-driven business. But using data effectively is neither free nor easy. It requires infrastructure and tools, which inevitably fall on engineers to build and maintain. These...
View Article9 Reasons Data Warehouse Projects Fail
Having access to an effective data warehouse dramatically increases your ability to make smarter decisions, faster. Without a data warehouse, if you want to do cross-domain analysis, you’re stuck...
View ArticleRole Playing with AWS
Last year the code hosting service Code Spaces was forced to close its doors after a hacker compromised their AWS account and deleted everything. We never learned the full story of how the account was...
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Redshift Database Benchmarks: COPY Performance of CSV, JSON, and Avro
When we selected Redshift as the first data warehouse target for RJMetrics Pipeline, we knew it offered great performance for batch processing and analytics workloads. We had experienced this...
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How We Built RJMetrics Pipeline
I run the 25-person engineering team at RJMetrics. Since our founding in 2009, we’ve built a full-stack business intelligence product. Full-stack BI involves a lot of technology: we manage the entire...
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Why You Shouldn’t Build Your Own Data Pipeline
We recently wrote an in-depth post that looked at how companies like Spotify, Netflix, Braintree, and many others are building their data pipelines. As a refresher, a data pipeline is the software that...
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Redshift Database Benchmarks: COPY Performance with Compressed Files
In part one of this series we found that CSV is the most performant input format for loading data with Redshift’s COPY command. In this edition we are once again looking at COPY performance, this time...
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