
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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I've spent too long thinking of these terms interchangeably. Runbooks Tactical Formula to Address a Situation Describe a situation that...
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...
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...
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...
What happens when a clever hack meets a difficult problem? Sometimes you might get clever solutions, but most times, you get...
Before DevOps and the associated glamor, DevOps was done by a Systems Administrator. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.en....
Data Governance is an oft-cited, oft-abused goal. Essentially, it is the process of governing a strategy for the acquisition and...
Successful data initiatives use a simple architecture that will scale. Most big data projects fail. Why do data initiatives fail? Build...
Event-driven data pipelines naturally scale much better, but there are many choices. AWS offers SQS as a message queuing system and both...
Some good reasons to use Step Functions in AWS * Dynamic Parallelism (AWS Article) * Event-Driven Architecture (Starting with CloudWatch...
The Pandas library has many nice features: built-in algorithms, plotting functions, data manipulations. You can use it in many cases to...
People see patterns where none exists.
Van Halen had a famous policy to test whether a venue paid attention to details. In the snacks section of their contract, they had...
Sometimes the obvious is obvious. Don't do development in production, even if you haven't deployed yet. Some shops will do their initial...
The Step Function feature in AWS makes expensive integration platforms obsolete. I'll be looking at the price carefully, but if you find...
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...
Sleep is for the weak... and FUCKERS!
In a world of agile nincompoops spewing corporate psychobabble nonsense, I am occasionally reminded that there are good people out there...
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...
The late, great Adam Schlesinger wrote about a quarterback who "all kinds of time." Sadly, the only ones these days who really have all...