Builders Skill Sprint – Analytics Month

🚀 AWS User Group Madurai | Builders Skill Sprint – February Edition: 📊 Analytics Month

This February, we’re diving into the world of data & analytics on AWS 📈✨
From raw data landing in S3 to meaningful insights powering dashboards and decisions — analytics pipelines are at the heart of modern applications. But one big question always comes first: Should you ingest data in batches or streams? And once data is ingested, how do you process it efficiently without reprocessing everything again and again?
That’s exactly what we’ll uncover in Checkpoint 1 of our February Sprint.

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📍 Checkpoint 1 – Data Ingestion Patterns & Smart ETL on AWS
Join us as we bring together two AWS analytics practitioners to break down data ingestion choices and cost-efficient ETL strategies using AWS-native services.

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🎯 Session Lineup

1️⃣ Batch vs Streaming Data Ingestion on AWS
🎤 Speaker: Abinaya S V
💡 Get a clear understanding of batch vs streaming ingestion and learn when to use each. This session explores how AWS Glue enables scalable batch ingestion and how Amazon Kinesis powers real-time streaming pipelines, with practical use cases and architectural guidance.

2️⃣ Smart ETL with AWS Glue Using Job Bookmarks
🎤 Speaker: Arun Kumar Nagaraj
💬 Learn how AWS Glue Job Bookmarks help you process only new or updated data in batch ETL workflows. Discover how incremental processing improves performance, reduces cost, and makes your ETL pipelines production-ready.

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📅 Date: 15th February 2026
🕙 Time: 10 AM Onwards
🔗 Register Here: https://www.meetup.com/aws-user-group-madurai/events/313282375

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🧠 What You’ll Learn in Checkpoint 1 – Analytics Foundations
✅ When to choose batch vs streaming ingestion
✅ Designing efficient ingestion pipelines on AWS
✅ Incremental ETL using AWS Glue Job Bookmarks
✅ Cost and performance optimization best practices
✅ Real-world demos and architectural insights

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👩‍💻 Who Should Attend?
Data engineers, analytics engineers, backend developers, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and builders looking to strengthen their analytics foundations on AWS.

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🎯 How to Sprint with Us:
🧭 Learn – Understand AWS analytics patterns and services
🛠️ Build – Take on the hands-on analytics challenge
📢 Create – Share your learnings and insights
🏅 Earn – Collect points, badges & AWS UG Madurai swag
🌟 Win – Climb the leaderboard & join the Hall of Fame