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Maintaining clear and concise architecture documentation is essential for successful teams. In the past, waterfall-based approaches often struggled to keep pace with the rapid changes in software development; by finishing the main architecture plan, the decisions made might already be obsolete.

Nowadays, many certifications are available to choose from, involving various topics from many organizations. All the significant hyper scalers, AWS, Azure, Google, etc., have multiple exams. One could categorize them by levels (Associate Architect, Professional Architect) or by specialties (Security, Data analytics, DevOps, etc.). Moreover, all the significant technologies have their own (Kubernetes, Hashicorp Vault, Terraform, etc.), or even you could be specialized in specific focus areas (FinOps, SAFe, etc.). When you are just starting and thinking about pursuing your first certificate, choosing the right one could be a challenge. This blog post will tell you about my experience and recommendations and give you a simple yet practical study guide.

Without a doubt, most companies with different pieces of information scattered around their organization would benefit from having a data lake. No wonder data lakes have been popping up at companies looking to improve their analytics further. In this blog post, we will explore what data lakes are, what’s the difference compared to data warehouses, and then take a detailed look at Lake formation. It is aimed at technical audiences who are new to Lake formation and want to understand its story conceptually.