Dask VS AWS Snowball

Dask Reviews

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Dask mentions (16)

• Large Scale Hydrology: Geocomputational tools that you use

  We're using a lot of Python. In addition to these, gridMET, Dask, HoloViz, and kerchunk. Source: over 2 years ago

• msgspec - a fast & friendly JSON/MessagePack library

  I wrote this for speeding up the RPC messaging in dask, but figured it might be useful for others as well. The source is available on github here: https://github.com/jcrist/msgspec. Source: over 2 years ago

• What does it mean to scale your python powered pipeline?

  Dask: Distributed data frames, machine learning and more. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Data pipelines with Luigi

  To do that, we are efficiently using Dask, simply creating on-demand local (or remote) clusters on task run() method:. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• How to load 85.6 GB of XML data into a dataframe

  I’m quite sure dask helps and has a pandas like api though will use disk and not just RAM. Source: over 2 years ago

AWS Snowball mentions (21)

• WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SSD, 128GB RAM, 1300W PSU

  This is still a common thing. Amazon has AWS Snowball [1] (up to 210 TB), Backblaze has Fireball [2] (96 TB), and I'm sure there are others. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ [2]: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/features/fireball-data-migration. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• AWS To Provide Free Data Transfer Out To Internet

  If you have extremely large amounts of data to transfer, such as hundreds of petabytes or into exabytes, AWS Snowmobile can move up to 100PB at once via a ruggedized shipping container. The ruggedized shipping container is tamper-resistant, water-resistant, temperature controlled, and GPS-tracked. The service was announced in 2016, and one of the trucks shown during a presentation that year at AWS re-Invent:. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• AWS To Provide Free Data Transfer Out To Internet

  AWS Snowball has a number of devices optimized for edge computing and data transfer. The service allows you to order a ruggedized device that can hold multiple terrabytes to petabytes of data, to transfer to AWS. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• AWS To Provide Free Data Transfer Out To Internet

  If you have extremely large amounts of data to transfer, such as hundreds of petabytes or into exabytes, AWS Snowmobile can move up to 100PB at once via a ruggedized shipping container. The ruggedized shipping container is tamper-resistant, water-resistant, temperature controlled, and GPS-tracked. The service was announced in 2016, and one of the trucks shown during a presentation that year at AWS re-Invent:. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Can they email between Pegasus and Earth?

  I'm sure once they got the BC-304s making regular round trips they dropped of a couple of AWS snowmobile trailers. For boosting their computing power and make copies of the Atlantis database to send back to Earth for more in depth analysis. Source: 5 months ago