Amazon QuickSight

This week, Amazon announced the availability of email reports and data labels in QuickSight.

With email reports in Amazon QuickSight, you can receive scheduled and one-off reports delivered directly to your email inbox. 

Using email reports, you have access to the latest information without logging in to your Amazon QuickSight accounts. You also get offline access to your data with email reports. 

For deeper analysis and exploration, you can easily click through from the email report to the interactive dashboard in Amazon QuickSight

Blockchain of Transportation Mobility

Interesting read from IBM, on blockchain of Transportation Mobility.

Blockchain can be used to:
* Verify vehicle identity and vehicle history
* Track auto components through the supply chain
* Automate machine payments
* Establish a mobility commerce platform
* Facilitate car and ride sharing
* Support usage-based insurance and taxes

Ref: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/blockchain/2018/07/road-to-the-future-blockchain-for-transportation-mobility/

Amazon ES Cloudwatch

Last week, Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) announces support for publishing error logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.  This new feature provides you with the ability to capture error logs so you can access information about errors and warnings raised during the operation of the service.

These details can be useful for troubleshooting. You can then use this information to work with your users to identify patterns that cause error or warning scenarios on your domain.

Access to the feature is enabled as soon as your domain is created.  You can turn the logs on and off at will, paying only for the CloudWatch charges based on their usage.

By enabling the error logs feature, you can gain more insight into issues with your Amazon ES domains and identify issues with domain configurations.  Additionally, you can also use the integration of CloudWatch Logs and Amazon ES to send application error logs to a different Amazon ES domain and monitor your domain’s performance.

Kafka Summit 2018

Kafka Summit is the premier event for data architects, engineers, DevOps professionals, and developers who want to learn about streaming data. It brings the Apache Kafka community together to share best practices, write code, and discuss the future of streaming technologies.

This year summit will be on Oct 16,17 at SFO, if possible.  Ref:
https://kafka-summit.org/events/kafka-summit-san-francisco-2018/

What is Blockchain

Block chain is buzz word in the current emerging technology / industry.

On resolution of 5 Ws (What, Why, When, Where, Who) & 1 H (How) queries, any new technology can be learnt in seamless way with width & depth details. Today, I'm just inking the first question - "What" i.e. What is Block chain?

Preface
This series doesn't have deep technical dive; in stead to address the fundamental understanding of this distributive technology to add business value.

As I was coming from the financial industry background, 4 business context need to define in alignment with Block chain technology.

1. Asset
2. Ledger
3. Transaction
4. Contract

Asset
Any tangible or intangible object, which is capable of being owned or controlled ultimately to produce value. Good examples are house (tangible) and its mortgage (intangible).

Ledger
It is an accounting principle and practice to record the business activities meticulously.

Transaction
Any activity to execute on the asset. Good examples are buying a new house or selling the existing house.

Contract
Any business condition for transaction to occur. Good examples are on settling the mortgage amount, house title will be transferred to the owner

Executive Summary
In a nut shell, Block chain is decentralized public digital ledger of all transactions in various business contracts of the underlying assets. Transaction details can’t be tampered to build the trust on data.

Hope, you can leverage this one pager on "What is block chain?"