Thank you very much for taking the time to comment and let me know you found this helpful. I'm sure you know by now i made a follow up post with some more information. Hopefully, that one will give you some tips as well.

Here's the link if you want to give it a read...
https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@castleberry/how-to-get-a-great-start-on-hive-2