Paas

• Jun 27, 2026
• data-engineering

IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS and Cloud Cost Optimization for Data Teams

Data Engineering for Beginners by Chisom Nwokwu (ISBN 9781394325412, Wiley 2025)

Previous: Cloud Data Engineering Basics

The second half of Chapter 12 answers two questions every data engineer eventually faces: how much of the stack do you want to manage yourself, and how do you keep the cloud bill from giving finance a heart attack?

• Jan 19, 2019
• Big Data

Cloud Computing for Big Data: An Introduction

Previous: Visualizing Big Data: Turning Numbers into Insight

We’ve spent this entire series talking about how to set up and run your own Hadoop cluster. But let’s be real: managing hardware is a pain. You have to buy servers, set up networking, worry about power outages, and pray that your hard drives don’t fail.