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Working around Glues habit of dropping unsuspecting columns

This point explains how to work around Glue’s problem of selective amnesia when creating Dynamic Frames from the Glue data catalog.

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How do the AWS instances compare to commercially available graphic cards?

In this post we would like to show a performance comparison between a g5-instance and the highend graphics card ASUS STRIX RTX3090 OC.

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Insider Story - 54 Nights in Bangkok

We, as tecRacer, thrive on our individual and unique employees. In our new series “Insider Stories”, Benjamin will share his experience of working from the other side of the world.

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Use the CDK to trigger your Lambda function in sub-minute intervals

In this post I’ll show you how to trigger your Lambda functions in intervals smaller than a minute using StepFunctions and the CDK.

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A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing - Hidden EC2 Permissions

During some R&D for a new blog post, I experimented with IAM conditions in Trust Policies. Some small mistakes during this led to instances that have limited privileges according to the AWS Web Console and CLI. But in reality, they can work with admin

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Solving Hive Partition Schema Mismatch Errors in Athena

Working with CSV files and Big Data tools such as AWS Glue and Athena can lead to interesting challenges. In this blog I will explain to you how to solve a particular problem that I encountered in a project - the HIVE_PARTITION_SCHEMA_MISMATCH.

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Lambda SQS Event Filters may delete your messages if youre not careful

Lambda Event filters are a great addition to our serverless toolbox and allow us to both simplify our code as well as save money. That’s great, but they can also delete messages from your SQS-queues if you’re note careful. In this post I&rsquo

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Enhance Lambda Security with new Amazon Inspector Vulnerability Management and prevent log4jgate

Detect the crack in the window (or the lambda library) before it breaks: As we have seen during the last month, also well known libraries like log4j can have previously unknown vulnerabilities. Therefore scanning your Lambda application before deploying i

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Simplify your code and save money with Lambda Event Filters

In this post I’m going to explore how the new event filters in AWS Lambda can be used to implement the data model for a video streaming website in DynamoDB. I’ll explain why this feature makes your code simpler and allows you to save money in

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One Step Closer to IPv6

Over many years, we have now read warnings about the exhaustion of available IPv4 addresses. So far, there still seem to be ways and ideas on how to extend their lifetime (by approaching large organizations, using NAT, re-dedication of 240.0.0.0/4, and so

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How to ingest MQTT data from VerneMQ into your Data Lake using IoT Core

This post explains how you can ingest data from a MQTT broker such as VerneMQ into your data lake via IoT Core and Kinesis Data Firehose. We’ll set up a data processing pipeline from start to finish in Terraform.

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Views of the Pyramids: From a monolithic Test process to a Serverless Test Automation with CodeBuild

Comparing the development methodology of a monolithic program to a Serverless IAC application you will see that the power of DevOps lies in automating everything. I will show you a working example of a serverless CI pipeline with automated unit, integrati

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Can AWS re:Post replace stackoverflow?

AWS launched re:Post as a successor to the AWS forums and it looks suspiciously similar to stackoverflow. In this post I take a first look at the platform and try to find out if it’s good enough to drive traffic away from stackoverflow.

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Using PySpark and AWS Glue to analyze multi-line log files

Logfile analytics with Spark is tricky. One of the common problems are multi-line logs. In this post I explain to you how you can use PySpark to get your multi-line logs into a structured data frame.

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NetApp DataSense on AWS

Over the last years, demands and expectations on data security have increased dramatically. The main drivers are local data privacy regulations like the EU-GDPR, which imply awareness of sensitive data and an overview of potential risks. Amazon has offere

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