Tim Burns
Cloud Adoption Framework Friday
I'm spending the day making up time on my AWS certification. One challenge of an architect is having a mental model of how to build a...
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Exploring the Fascinating Details of Software, Nature, and Data
From nature to software - small details come together to make a grand design.
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Rhode Island used to be in Avalonia
Fun fact: Rhode Island was once in a continent of Avalonia, along with the UK and Ireland. Image Source: Malaga Bay
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More data than you can shake a stick at
https://registry.opendata.aws/ It cost me $0.77 to query this data with Athena to find out the highest levels of Ozone in the US for a...
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Fake Data
Create some fake data to entertain your friends and family. https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ Actually, no one cares, but create...
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Runbooks and Playbooks
I've spent too long thinking of these terms interchangeably. Runbooks Tactical Formula to Address a Situation Describe a situation that...
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It Begins: Mission AWS Architect Certification
I've decided to get AWS Architect Certified during this slow season of COVID isolation. I have a filled-out shell of a decent AWS stack...
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Declarative or Imperative? Hmm...
I've become a master of the AWS SAM model which specifies the relationships declaratively. Now AWS CDK has come out and it could make...
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It's Time to Change Dimensions
To everything there a season, and a time to every purpose, and let's keep track of those changes with a slowly changing dimension. What...
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Data Governance Anti-Patterns
What happens when a clever hack meets a difficult problem? Sometimes you might get clever solutions, but most times, you get...
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Know Your Snowflake Admin
Before DevOps and the associated glamor, DevOps was done by a Systems Administrator. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en....
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Data Governance Guide Posts
Data Governance is an oft-cited, oft-abused goal. Essentially, it is the process of governing a strategy for the acquisition and...
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Building a Succesful Data Initiative on AWS
Successful data initiatives use a simple architecture that will scale. Most big data projects fail. Why do data initiatives fail? Build...
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Scaling Event Handlers
Event-driven data pipelines naturally scale much better, but there are many choices. AWS offers SQS as a message queuing system and both...
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Reasons for Step Functions
Some good reasons to use Step Functions in AWS * Dynamic Parallelism (AWS Article) * Event-Driven Architecture (Starting with CloudWatch...
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Pandas Drives me Crazy
The Pandas library has many nice features: built-in algorithms, plotting functions, data manipulations. You can use it in many cases to...
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DevOps QA and Brown M&Ms
Van Halen had a famous policy to test whether a venue paid attention to details. In the snacks section of their contract, they had...
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Don't Develop in Production!
Sometimes the obvious is obvious. Don't do development in production, even if you haven't deployed yet. Some shops will do their initial...
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AWS Stepfunctions Rock!
The Step Function feature in AWS makes expensive integration platforms obsolete. I'll be looking at the price carefully, but if you find...
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Curl to PyTest
Curl is fine for testing manually, but my eyes get tired watching all that JSON mumbo-jumbo. curl -H "X-API-KEY: ${X_API_KEY}" -X POST...
