In this episode, Ben & Chris discuss disaster recovery and building a disaster recovery plan you can be proud of. They go over multiple DR strategies, pros and cons of each of them as well as specific AWS services you can use to satisfy your company's recovery requirements.

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In this episode, Ben & Chris discuss a vacation season requirement – documentation. Whether you’re building a product, supporting a client or just needing someone else to run payroll, documenting for your coworkers is imperative for business continuity and the key to a great time away from the computer.

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In this episode, Ben & Chris talk about converting paper into data using a tool called Amazon Textract. Textract enables you to automatically extract text, handwriting and data from scanned documents. We discuss a customer business problem we solved replacing an old OCR scanner with cheaper scanners uploading documents to Textract and saving the customer a lot of money and time in the process.

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In this episode, Ben & Chris talk about deploying and scaling web applications using Amazon ECS. They focus on approaches they take when using ECS and container orchestration.

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In this episode, Ben & Chris deep dive into No Code & Low Code platforms – the promise of these tools, where they struggle to deliver and the ones we still love and use daily.

Platforms we mention on this week’s episode:

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In this episode, Ben & Chris delve into the essential role of technology and automation in modern businesses. They share their approach to consultation, pain point analysis, and creating a custom technological roadmap to guide businesses towards effective automation. Emphasizing a return on investment (ROI) driven mindset, they also discuss the significance of planning and incremental improvement in successful automation strategies.

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Ben and Chris talk about building Data Warehouses and Lakes with ETL (or ELT!) Pipelines, Visualizations, and more.

Ben and Chris introduce the podcast, themselves and talk about building a custom printing solution for a customer with some other topics (Ferngully,

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