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Oracle to PostgreSQL migration with AWS SCT: How to convert INSERT ALL statement
In this post we continue exploring the technical aspects of Oracle to PostgreSQL migration using AWS SCT. AWS SCT promises a very high level of migration efforts, however it is very rare that 100% automation is achieved. In this article we’ll look into conversion of INSERT ALL statements, which are quite popular in Oracle code. […]
ABCloudz achieved a Select Consulting Partner status with AWS Partner Network
We’re proud to announce that ABCloudz has become an AWS Select Consulting Partner, which highlights our commitment to the AWS cloud platform, and bringing the best of this cloud platform to our clients. This great event comes with some worthy achievements – The ABCloudz engineers achieved several certifications as AWS Solution Architect Associates, others received Cloud […]
Oracle to PostgreSQL migration with AWS SCT: How to handle unsupported data types
In this post we explore the technical aspects of Oracle to PostgreSQL migration using AWS SCT. We’ll look into conversion of Oracle “aliases”. We were using AWS SCT build #660 to convert one of our Oracle test databases. The challenge Oracle’s subtype declaration allows creating an “alias” for some datatype declaration, which can be re-used […]
How you can help our ukrainian team to survive
We’d like to invite you to be a part of our fundraiser for ABCloudz UA Team. As you know, Ukraine is under the inhumane attack of Russia right now, many people left their homes, some of them do not have homes anymore…. ABCloudz Inc (former DB Best Technologies) started a GoFundMe Fundraiser to support our […]
Our statement on Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine
ABCloudz is a global company. Our employees and contractors are distributed across several countries on both sides of Atlantic including Ukraine. Due to a recent Russian military aggression, many of our colleagues in the middle and central Ukraine decided to relocate and did so. Some are still in transit, on their way to new locations […]
Best practices: Security audit of Azure infrastructure for a healthcare data company
One of our customers runs a large Azure data center that works with Personal Health Information ( PHI). Before the client contacted us, many of their servers have been running on legacy OS and the overall infrastructure was rather disorganized. The Company’s management was concerned about potential security holes and requested to conduct a thorough […]
Building a world-class fitness platform
The Instructrr is a startup in the online fitness space. They had an idea of a web-based fitness platform where fitness instructors would directly sell their learning materials and services to the customers. A user can watch fitness streams, study materials about exercises, communicate with fitness instructors, and buy services. The company already operated in the […]
Building a 6-step image recognition app for rapid COVID-19 tests
Our client is a healthcare testing and biotechnology company that quickly grew from a small antigen development lab into a large producer of various healthcare tests distributed across the U.S. The client developed a new custom device for some of the most rapid COVID-19 tests. It includes a pipette for collecting blood and a small […]
DevOps and test automation: Docker saves the day!
Recently, the ABCloudz team migrated a customer’s database from Apache Cassandra to Amazon DynamoDB. As part of this project, we needed to run multiple tests to ensure perfect quality for our delivery. However, we faced a problem in setting up the test environment. Even though we were using AWS CloudFormation templates for the EC2 instances, it was taking over 30 mins to get the dev/test environment setup. In addition, our developers couldn’t run parallel regression testing. So, we decided to…
Expand capacity with an IBM DB2 SQL Azure SQL Database migration
One of the world’s largest distributors of non-food consumable products wanted to rationalize their data platform and business intelligence strategy. Their current IBM DB2 database system lacked a repository to host historical audit-related data, so they could hardly retrieve data from past years. Then we came up with an Azure cloud database solution that could […]
Powerful visualization of business KPIs with Power BI
Our customer is the nation’s largest home outdoor care company, serving more than 2.3 million residential and commercial customers across the United States and having revenues reaching up to $2 billion. Before contacting ABCloudz they had severe business reporting issues. The client’s KPI (key performance indicator) reports were extremely inconsistent and took too much time […]
Developing a worldwide lost and found platform
PerdidoOnline, a Puerto Rico based startup came up with an idea to help the unfortunate among us who lose our belongings wherever we go. Our client wanted to develop a locator and tracking solution t that will substitute the lost and found offices all over the world and save the users from worrying about losing their property. Read more to learn how our team turned this idea into reality.
Preparing a healthcare application for HIPAA audit
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is one of the most important United States federal statutes which has a great impact on the development of medical software. This act stands for the safety of the protected health information (PHI) and defines security standards that each digitized medical business should follow. HIPAA sets numerous requirements […]
Car Auction Marketplace: From concept to release in record time
Speed is everything in the highly competitive domain of e-commerce. Digital marketplaces of varied sizes appear at an ever-increasing rate and it becomes more challenging to stand out among the competition. According to estimates, a 6-months delay in a software product release can cut its profitability by at least 30%. These numbers had been relevant […]
Market review: SQL Server Monitoring Tools
It’s no secret that a modern world runs on data. This essential asset is stored in databases or data stores. And keeping such databases or data stores healthy is vital in the digital era we live in. It is also no secret that database issues can take down entire systems and cost businesses many thousands […]
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