Week 3 Lab is about a web app. This is not a data engineering topic. It disappointing that we could not have a more DE-relevant scenario. For example, security could be about securing a database or even a dashboard. Auto-scaling could be about scaling a Spark cluster to handle processing workloads. It seems like this is a generic lab topic inserted by AWS to demonstrate their cloud products.
Hi @Jdafx , thank you for your feedback. Our team has noted your suggestions.
To provide a bit of context, when we designed this lab, we noted that in some instances, especially when working with smaller organizations, data engineers may need to build web apps to make the data or dashboards available to the intended stakeholders. Also, since we wanted to start highlighting the principles of good data architecture in course 1 before we introduce things like databases (course 2 and 3 topic) and Spark (course 4 topic) in more detail, we decided to go with a web app in this lab to illustrate the principles. We will consider your feedback as we continue to improve the labs.
Thank you for your response Jessica.
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