Concurrency Labs

05/11/2026

My next webinar, this coming Wednesday, May 13th, at 10AM PST: “Cloud Security and Resiliency Best Practices in AWS”. I'll cover best practices, processes and tools to enhance Security and Resiliency in AWS, two critical components in the AWS Well-Architected Framework and two essential parts in any cloud deployment.

Here is the link to register:

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/679/664958

04/12/2026

This Wednesday, April 15th, at 10AM PST, I'll be presenting this webinar: "Securing Cloud-Native Containers: Strategies for AWS Success". I'll cover critical best practices during the development, deployment and DevOps processes of container-based applications in AWS and relevant tools and services in AWS to optimize security in container-based applications.

You can register by clicking on the link below:

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/499/664950

02/28/2026

Data Streaming is an essential component in many modern applications, including AI-based solutions. Concurrency Labs executed this benchmark using a standard TPC-DS dataset and comparing streaming ingestion platforms Starburst Galaxy Data Ingestion, AWS Data Firehose and Confluent Tableflow.

Here is the link to our blog post with the test results:

Data Streaming has become an essential component in many modern applications. This article covers a Data Streaming benchmark using AWS Data Firehose, Confluent Tableflow and Starburst Galaxy, ingesting and processing data from an Apache Kafka cluster and storing it in a destination table using Icebe...

11/05/2025

This Thursday, November 6th, at 5PM EST I'll be presenting this webinar: “Deploy Automated AWS Defenses for Threat Prevention”. I'll share critical best practices for Security Automation and tools in AWS for following these best practices and deploying secure cloud infrastructure. You can join by clicking on the link below:

AWS infrastructure offers robust native security mechanisms, but the shared responsibility model places critical configuration burdens on app owners. This creates gaps that attackers can actively exploit through misconfigurations, privilege escalation, and cross-service vulnerabilities which can com...

08/21/2025

Integrations with Data Analytics platforms is critical when building and managing Machine Learning models. My latest article in TechTarget covers Amazon SageMaker AI and integrations with data analytics services in AWS.

Use AWS analytics services, such as Athena, EMR and Redshift, to enhance Amazon SageMaker AI workflows and simplify data preparation.

05/31/2025

AWS offers very useful AI-based tools to help with cloud infrastructure configurations and optimizations, as well as software development. I recently wrote this article for TechTarget, with details on how to get started with Amazon Q Developer:

Ease software development and fold AI into IT processes with Amazon Q Developer.

02/14/2025

This coming Monday, February 17th, at 8AM PST, you can join us on this webinar about GitOps and how the practice intersects with data and developers. We’ll also cover how GitOps enhances collaboration, automation and stability.

Link to webinar:

In the second episode of the year, Helen Beal and guests turn their attention to GitOps - specifically, how the practice intersects with data and developers. Join to learn more about how GitOps can improve collaboration, automation and stability.

01/21/2025

The past couple of years have delivered an outstanding number of innovations in the digital industry. 2025 will likely continue with this trend and it’s always valuable to understand the main areas that will transform digital technology in the near future.

You can join us in this webinar on Wednesday January 22nd at 8:00 AM PST, where we’ll cover interesting topics about Digital Transformation trends in 2025.

You can register here:

Welcome to the first episode of The Real-World Digital Transformation Series, a new monthly discussion series looking at how Digital Transformation is rewiring businesses and enabling them to stay competitive. Join host Nick Cavalancia - Technical Evangelist and 4-time Microsoft MVP - and guests in....

12/18/2024

My latest blog post. Amazon SageMaker is a great tool for developing and managing Machine Learning applications in AWS. However, it’s very easy to spend a significant amount of money when using SageMaker. This article covers strategies to avoid unnecessarily high cost in Amazon SageMaker AI.

Amazon SageMaker AI is AWS’ managed service for automating Machine Learning tasks and it’s a great option to build, train and deploy ML models in the cloud. However, due to their high data processing and compute nature, ML tasks have the potential to incur very high AWS cost (it’s not uncommon...

11/13/2024

My latest article in TechTarget. An overview of EC2 instances available in SageMaker for Machine Learning workloads.

Determine the best AWS EC2 instance for machine learning workloads based on performance needs, metrics and potential cost savings.