Building at scale: Lessons from 300M+ event pipelines
How we optimized AWS serverless workloads to manage massive analytics ingestion and speed up Athena queries by 12x.
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How we optimized AWS serverless workloads to manage massive analytics ingestion and speed up Athena queries by 12x.
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