Tim Burns
Serverless 2020 Highlights
This dog cannot find his favorite fetch toy (where is it?) Lambda Functions Good point from the AWS presentation: Lambda responds to...
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Tim Burns
Automating Serverless Deployments with AWS CodeBuild
Photo by Shawn Lee on Unsplash I remember when DevOps was a new idea and a colleague said, "DevOps separates out the real developers." I...
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Scrutinize Every Cost
Photo by Maria Hochgesang on Unsplash I worked for a $100 million company that restricted development team accounts to $100/month. At...
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Scaling Takes Courage - Don't Settle for the Easy Option
Source: CloudGuru - Professional Architect Cert 2020 Very few organizations fill in the green cogs in the above picture. Why? It takes...
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A Monk once Said - If you change code in deployment, stop
Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash Also from https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf Deploy using...
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Please use Cloud Formation - for Future You
Future you always hates it when you don't use Cloud Formation.
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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...
Tim Burns
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...
Tim Burns
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...
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....
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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...
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...
