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The blog post discusses optimizing a serverless data pipeline on AWS from data ingestion to insights. It showcases transforming open data sets on Helsinki public transport into a data lake in Amazon S3, combining data sets in Amazon QuickSight to create insights, and speeding up the data pipeline to keep insights uptodate. NordHero has used AWS Glue jobs, crawlers, Athena, and QuickSight to build data pipelines and data lakes for customers. Amazon S3 is an ideal service for a data lake due to scalability, cost effectiveness, durability, and security. The post provides an example AWS Glue ETL job that extracts data from DynamoDB, transforms it, and writes it to S3 in Parquet format. When optimizing the ETL process, the key criteria are minimizing time and cost. Various tips are provided for optimizing AWS Glue jobs and workflows to speed up data processing. To optimize the analytics experience, Amazon QuickSight’s SPICE in-memory caching can instantly query data versus going to the S3