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nach Wunsch auch mit VideocallPerfect summer weather in Hamburg – and minubo is performing fantastic as well. Time for another status update!
Besides the various new features that our development team actually is concerned with (integration of Google AdWords and Facebook Insights, calculation of Customer Lifetime Values, Facebook tracking, configurable Widgets, project and user administration), some comprehensive technical alterations of our Cloud BI solution are on the agenda as well. The main keyword: scalability.
Optimized scalability with Amazon Web Services
Pack the bags! minubo is moving to Amazon Web Services. To ensure our technology’s better scalability being capable of processing unsteady amounts of data (and accessing users) with their total extents constantly growing, our developer team now takes advantage of Amazon Web Services. Currently, this mainly concerns the following two topics:
- Data integration and processing by means of Hadoop technology
- Metrics calculation in Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse and Mondrian Cubes
1. Hadoop
The big advantage of implementing the processing of data by means of a Hadoop cluster lies in the possibility to make use of more or less resources flexibly – resources that then take a distributed approach of processing the data. This way, an optimized utilization of computational power becomes possible; during the nights being loaded with information processing as well as during daytime usually not being that occupied. Especially for applications handling large amounts of data (or for fans of Bullshit Bingo: Big Data), a computing system like this probably is the most efficient solution.
2. Amazon Redshift data base and Mondrian Cubes
A large number of minubo customers who want to access their metrics quickly (using various filter categories and Detail Reports) require high computational power – most notably when doing so at the same time. Accordingly, to provide minubo’s comprehensive metrics portfolio to all customers for quick query, a high-performance data base becomes necessary. For this reason, the minubo development team now focuses on a combination from Amazon Redshift (relational data base) and Mondrian Cubes (multidimensional data base).
Working with tecracer
To manage minubo’s migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) successfully, we acquired some expert assistance:tecracer, certified AWS partner, does not only support our team in regard to the described alterations, but particularly in regard to the migration of the web application and all import services being imminent as well.
Redesign of the Web Frontend
In addition to those changes, the redesign of the minubo Web Frontend still is a current issue, for within a short time, the new minubo design will go online. Admittedly, quite unlike the name may imply, the redesign not merely is all about optical changes, but rather about a fine tuning of the already well-designed minubo user interface. For one thing, the web frontend will be far more well-structured, what comes along with an optimization of the drag and drop function additionally, for another thing, the redesign lays the foundation of the web application’s adaption to mobile devices.
So far for this time – we’ll meet at the dmexco in September! We’d love to give you some comprehensive information and news updates during a face-to-face conversation there.
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