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Working with datasets in pandas will almost inevitably bring you to the point where your dataset doesn’t fit into memory. Especially parquet is notorious for that since it’s so well compressed and tends to explode in size when read into a data
Yesterday, AWS announced support for Terraform Open Source in Service Catalog. For me, this sounds like a game changer! Which is why I had to test it out immediately.
A diagram should convey a clear message about the intention of the architecture. For this message, you only need a few primary resources. Most generated diagrams are overloaded. This new app generates a diagram as code from your annotations in the CDK cod
Proper version control is an essential part of a fast-paced, agile development approach and the foundation of CI/CD. Even though databases are an important aspect of nearly every application, database migrations, and schema evolutions are often not versio
Keeping track of your passwords is already challenging in your personal life. It can be more difficult when you want to build and deploy secure applications in the cloud. Today we’ll show you a few ways of managing secrets in your Terraform deployment. We
Have you ever heard about CloudFront Functions as an alternative to Lambda@Edge when doing redirects within CloudFront? In this post I will give you an example of the different steps for an implementation of both variants with the same result.
Using SQS as a queue to buffer tasks is probably the most common use case for the service. Things can get tricky if these tasks have a wide range of processing durations. Today, I will show you how to implement an SQS consumer that utilizes heartbeats to
This blog post was completely generated by ChatGPT and not modified in any way. As an AI language model, my purpose is to assist and empower users with diverse tasks, from answering questions to helping develop custom tools. Recently, an IT consultant a
Joining an AWS Training allows you to learn new things for your daily work. Attending a training commonly happens in groups of up to 13 people and has more of a frontal teaching character. An alternative event are workshops are more practical and done in
When deploying AWS infrastructure via Terraform, the usage of long-term IAM credentials is often the go-to method. Even though convenient, long-term credentials and secrets can pose a serious security risk to your organization if leaked. This post will sh
While traditional Infrastructure as Code tools offer a multitude of benefits, they usually fail to meet the security and compliance requirements of modern security-focused organizations when managing infrastructure at scale. This post will show you how yo
This is the story of how an undocumented API call became an official one.
Up to a few years back, writing Dockerfiles was easy. In many cases, it still is - unless you are working with a mixed fleet of Intel and ARM-based processors. Are you familiar with this situation and you do not want to maintain two almost identical Docke
When implementing REST APIs in AWS there is one service that always comes to mind - Amazon API Gateway. Even though feature-rich, properly documenting your API may become a time-consuming task relatively quickly. In this post, I would like to show you how
AWS BI Solution Amazon QuickSight is a powerful tool to build interactive analyses or dashboards. In this blog post we will see how to get started with designing such analyses.