Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Digital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.11]
In his Newsletter Solopreneur Ian Nuttal writes, “I sold my startup (again).” In 4 months URL Monitor scaled far beyond what I expected: 550+ customers 2 million indexed pages 17 million pages monitored
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Because the world needs better dashboards While my professional interests in Building Better Data Insights Faster rely on using visuals and narratives to show data-driven results, “Starting from first principles” is the question you have to ask.
Read moreDigital Tech Trek Digest [#Issue 2024.01]
The Tiny Stack (Astro, SQLite, Litestream) I spent many years in the LAMP stack , and there are often many more acronyms of technology stacks in our evolving programming ecosystem. New today is “The Tiny Stack”, consisting of Astro , a modern meta-framework for javascript (not my words), and Lightstream Continuously stream SQLite changes.
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Announcing InstanceHunt
InstanceHunt identifies the instance (families/types/classes) available for a cloud service across all the regions of that cloud. The initial version is a working example of several AWS database services. Future releases will enable advanced filtering and will cover other service categories (e.
Read moreAWS RDS Aurora wish list
I’ve had this list on a post-it note on my monitor for all of 2022. I figured it was time to write it down, and reuse the space. In summary, AWS suffers from the same problem that almost every other product does.
Read moreSpoiler – Owning your data isn’t good enough
While this is a catchy title, if you use Software as a Service (SaaS), or an online cloud provider, do you actually own and have total control of your business data and its infrastructure?
Read moreCan a picture replace a text description?
Data visualization, data storytelling, and data lineage are all ways to better describe and visualize a specific situation for a set of data. Generally, I find these techniques are used as a means to uncover or identify information that ultimately pertains to individuals.
Read moreUpgrading to AWS Aurora MySQL 8
With Aurora MySQL 8 now generally available to all, you may want to consider the plan for an upgrade path if you would like to take advantage of the new features for your application, for example, Common Table Expressions (CTE).
Read moreAWS Aurora MySQL 8 is now generally available
AWS has just announced the general availability of Aurora MySQL 8 compatibility (known as Aurora Version 3). This is long awaited addition to RDS MySQL 8 and provides many of the new features that can be found in the open-source MySQL 8 community version.
Read more#WDILTW – RTFM, then RTFM again, then improve it
This week I learned two valuable aspects of Terraform I did not know. The first is Terraform State Import . While I use terraform state to list and show state and even remove state, I was unaware you could import from a created AWS resource.
Read moreA QLDB Cheat Sheet for MySQL Users
The AWS ledger database (QLDB) is an auditors best friend and lives up to the stated description of “Amazon QLDB can be used to track each and every application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time.
Read moreUnderstanding AWS RDS Aurora Capabilities
The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the High Availability (HA) capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ. In this presentation I discuss the different capabilities and HA configurations with RDS Aurora including:
Read moreUpcoming Percona Live 2021 Presentations
I am pleased to have been selected to present at Percona Live 2021 May 12-13. My presentations include talks on AWS RDS Aurora and QLDB managed services. Understanding AWS RDS Aurora Capabilities The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the HA capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ.
Read more#WDILTW – Creating examples can be hard
This week I was evaluating AWS QLDB . Specifically the verifiable history of changes to determine how to simplify present processes that perform auditing via CDC. This is not the first time I have looked at QLDB so there was nothing that new to learn.
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