Tim Burns
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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Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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....
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
Reasons for Step Functions
Some good reasons to use Step Functions in AWS * Dynamic Parallelism (AWS Article) * Event-Driven Architecture (Starting with CloudWatch...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
Yes - CODE REVIEWS PEOPLE!
In a world of agile nincompoops spewing corporate psychobabble nonsense, I am occasionally reminded that there are good people out there...
Tim Burns
A Dungeon Master's API Gateway
Every good adventure starts with a door. Perhaps the door is more than a door, but a gateway to some enchanted temple. As a Dungeon...
Tim Burns
Security Checklist: Limit Scope on Secrets
The late, great Adam Schlesinger wrote about a quarterback who "all kinds of time." Sadly, the only ones these days who really have all...
