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01.10.2024 By Yannik Rust
DynamoDB Accelerator: The solution for lightning-fast database queries
In today's digital landscape, the efficient management and processing of data is crucial to the success of applications and services. This blog post introduces the powerful caching solution DynamoDB Accelerator and explains why it is a suitable solution for lightning-fast database queries.
Read more21.05.2024 By Dominik Táskai
Migrating EventBridge archives
If your infrastructure utilizes EventBridge and its archive feature, you may easily encounter situations where modifications to your event bus are necessary. This could involve creating a new archive or event bus and subsequently transferring events from the old archive to the new one as there is no way to attach an existing archive to a new event bus, so creating a new event bus requires creating a new archive for it.
Read more11.01.2024 By Dominik Táskai
Leveraging Dagger for AWS CDK deployments
Dagger is a fairly new tool, which has already gained traction in the tech community as a promising replacement for your regular CI/CD pipelines. In this post we are going to take a look at how you can use Dagger to write your CI/CD pipeline as code and to deploy your AWS CDK stacks.
Read more08.12.2023 By Kristóf Nyári
Making system design Q-uick with Amazon Q
The 2023 AWS re:Invent gave developers, analysts, and business owners many innovations to consider. One of the new services included was the generative-AI based chat tool called Amazon Q.
Read more16.11.2023 By Attila Papp
Amazon DataZone: A Brief Overview
AWS announced the General Availability (GA) of DataZone on October 4, 2023. DataZone is a data management service (essentially a managed data mesh) designed to streamline data management across various sources. This blog post will briefly examine its capabilities and what I learned when I evaluated it two weeks ago.
Read more12.10.2023 By Dominik Táskai
Lambda-backed Providers and Custom Resources in AWS CDK
Even if you are a seasoned AWS CDK/CloudFormation veteran, it has most likely happened to you that you tried to work with a resource that was not yet available in CDK/CloudFormation (looking at you Lake Formation). Luckily if the resource and the accompanying operations are available through the AWS API then you are in good luck as AWS has a way to incorporate these API calls into your templates/code and bridge the gap created by the unavailability of some resources.
Read more05.10.2023 By Attila Papp
A minimal ETL pipeline with Athena
In this blog post, I present a solution that utilizes Athena's new Iceberg functionality for achieving such minimal ETL pipelines.
Read more28.09.2023 By Attila Papp
Reading Athena views in Glue ETL
This guide will walk you through the process of reading Athena views in Glue ETL using PySpark.
Read more02.02.2023 By Attila Papp
How I prepared for my certifications - an empirical study guide
Nowadays, many certifications are available to choose from, involving various topics from many organizations. All the significant hyper scalers, AWS, Azure, Google, etc., have multiple exams. One could categorize them by levels (Associate Architect, Professional Architect) or by specialties (Security, Data analytics, DevOps, etc.). Moreover, all the significant technologies have their own (Kubernetes, Hashicorp Vault, Terraform, etc.), or even you could be specialized in specific focus areas (FinOps, SAFe, etc.). When you are just starting and thinking about pursuing your first certificate, choosing the right one could be a challenge. This blog post will tell you about my experience and recommendations and give you a simple yet practical study guide.
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