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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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Tim Burns
How Copy S3 Data Directly into Postgres
If you've read my previous articles on Postgres, you now have the ability to spin up and spin down a Postgres instance from the command...
Tim Burns
Jump-start Postgres Development with Terraform
Ensuring your development work will merge neatly with a production system is critical to success. A dirty secret of development databases...
Tim Burns
Postgres is Not a Dinosaur (At least not with AWS)
Ten years ago, we had a development database server we affectionately named "Terabytes Rex." No irony. The mass extinction of on-premises...
Tim Burns
Using a Lambda Layer with API Gateway
AWS API Gateway is one of the most common ways to trigger a Lambda function. The API gateway acts as a front end to the Lambda function,...
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Test First Design with AWS Serverless
Get Test Coverage with PyTest on Local Systems Momentum is building behind pure serverless environments with API Gateway and Lambda, but...
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