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Retrieving Lambda@Edge CloudWatch Logs

Retrieving Lambda@Edge CloudWatch Logs

What is Lambda@Edge AWS Lambda@Edge is an extension of the traditional AWS Lambda service, but with a crucial twist – it brings serverless computing capabilities closer to the end-users. In essence, Lambda@Edge empowers developers to run custom code ...

January 26, 2024
3 min read
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List of free AWS Knowledge Badges

List of free AWS Knowledge Badges

As the Skillbuilder website is sometimes a bit hard to navigate, here's the full list of free badges you can do on AWS Skillbuilder: AWS Knowledge: Cloud Essentials AWS Knowledge: Architecting AWS Knowledge: Serverless AWS Knowledge: Object Stora...

September 1, 2023
1 min read
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Serverless Maps for fun and profit

Serverless Maps for fun and profit

Introduction In today's data-driven world, interactive and visually appealing web-based maps have become an integral part of countless applications and services. Whether it's for navigation, location-based services, or data visualization, delivering ...

August 7, 2023
9 min read
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Gathering and analyzing public cloud provider IP address data with DuckDB & Observerable

Gathering and analyzing public cloud provider IP address data with DuckDB & Observerable

As organizations increasingly adopt the public cloud, managing the networking and security aspects of cloud computing becomes more complex. One of the challenges that cloud administrators face is, especially in a hybrid cloud environment, keeping tra...

April 26, 2023
8 min read
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Casual data engineering, or: A poor man's Data Lake in the cloud - Part I

Casual data engineering, or: A poor man's Data Lake in the cloud - Part I

In the age of big data, organizations of all sizes are collecting vast amounts of information about their operations, customers, and markets. To make sense of this data, many are turning to data lakes - centralized repositories that store and manage ...

April 24, 2023
20 min read
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Using DuckDB to repartition parquet data in S3

Using DuckDB to repartition parquet data in S3

Since release v0.7.1, DuckDB has the ability to repartition data stored in S3 as parquet files by a simple SQL query, which enables some interesting use cases. Why not use existing AWS services? If your data lake lives in AWS, a natural choice for ET...

February 26, 2023
5 min read
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Using DuckDB in AWS Lambda

Using DuckDB in AWS Lambda

Prelude DuckDB is an open-source in-process SQL OLAP database management system that has recently gained significant public interest due to its unique architecture and impressive performance benchmarks. Unlike traditional databases that are designed ...

February 12, 2023
6 min read
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Building a global reverse proxy with on-demand SSL support

Building a global reverse proxy with on-demand SSL support

Motivation Who needs a reverse proxy with on-demand SSL support? Well, think about services as Hashnode, which also runs this blog, or Fathom and SimpleAnalytics. A feature that all those services have in common? They all are enabling their customers...

January 10, 2023
11 min read
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