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November 29th, 2021 - Instalment #92 Newsletter #92. This is the re:Invent edition of the...
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November 22nd, 2021 - Instalment #91 Newsletter #91. This week I feature eleven new open...
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November 15th, 2021 - Instalment #90 Newsletter #90. Another packed edition of his...
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November 8th, 2021 - Instalment #89 Newsletter #89. This week we have another selection of...
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November 1st, 2021 - Instalment #88 Newsletter #88. Number 88 symbolises fortune and good...
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October 25th, 2021 - Instalment #87 Newsletter #87. As we approach Halloween (or Dia de...
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October 18th, 2021 - Instalment #86 Newsletter #86. This week we have a very broad...
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October 11th, 2021 - Instalment #85 Newsletter #85. This week we have an interesting...
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October 4th, 2021 - Instalment #84 Newsletter #84. Welcome to issue #84 of this...
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September 27th, 2021 - Instalment #83 Newsletter #83. Welcome to issue #83 of this...
Integrating Amazon Timestream in your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x
Integrating with Amazon Timestream in your Apache Airflow DAGs Amazon Timestream is a fast,...
AWS open source news and updates #82
September 20th, 2021 - Instalment #82 Newsletter #82. Welcome to issue #82 of this...
AWS open source news and updates #81
September 13th, 2021 - Instalment #81 Newsletter #81. Welcome new and existing readers of...
Reading and writing data across different AWS accounts with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x
Reading and writing data across different AWS accounts in you Apache Airflow DAGs As regular readers...
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September 6th, 2021 - Instalment #80 Newsletter #80. So what delights does #80 of this...
AWS open source news and updates #79
August 27th, 2021 - Instalment #79 Newsletter #79. The combination of having been away on...
AWS open source news and updates #78
August 2nd, 2021 - Instalment #78 Newsletter #78. This is the last newsletter for the...
Working with parameters and variables in Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Maximising the re-use of your DAGs in MWAA During some recently conversations with customers, one of...
AWS open source news and updates #77
26th July, 2021 - Instalment #77 Newsletter #77. This week we have more new open source...
AWS open source news and updates #76
19th July, 2021 - Instalment #76 Newsletter #76. This week, we have new oss projects such...
Creating a multi architecture CI/CD solution with Amazon ECS and ECS Anywhere
Please let me know how I can improve posts such as this one, by completing this very short survey....
AWS open source news and updates #75
12th July, 2021 - Instalment #75 Newsletter #75. This week we have a bumper edition, due...
AWS open source news/updates #74
28th June, 2021 - Instalment #74 Newsletter #74. This week we have new open source...
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21st June, 2021 - Instalment #73 Newsletter #73. This week's new projects include a...
AWS open source news and updates #72
14th June, 2021 - Instalment #72 Newsletter #72. This week we have new open source...
Working with Amazon EKS and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow v2.x
Introduction The Apache Airflow slack channel is a vibrant community of open source...
AWS open source news and updates #71
7th June, 2021 - Instalment #71 Newsletter #71. This week we have a number of security re...
AWS open source news and updates #70
1st June, 2021 - Instalment #70 Due to it being a bank holiday in the UK, Newsletter #70 i...
AWS open source news and updates #69
May 24th, 2021 - Instalment #69 Newsletter #69. This week we celebrate more new open sou...
AWS open source news and updates #68
May 17th, 2021 - Instalment #68 Newsletter #68. What better way that to celebrate my 100...
Working with the RedshiftToS3Transfer operator and Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Introduction Inspired by a recent conversation within the Apache Airflow open source slack...
AWS open source news and updates #67
May 10th, 2021 - Instalment #67 Newsletter #67. This week more great open source project...
AWS open source news and updates #66
May 4th, 2021 - Instalment #66 Newsletter #66. This week we have a really outstanding co...
Using AWS CDK to deploy your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow environment
Using AWS CDK to deploy your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow environment What...
AWS open source news and updates #65
April, 26th, 2021 - Instalment #65 Newsletter #65. This week we have new projects coveri...
Automating your ELT Workflows with Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow - Part Two
Part Two - Automating Amazon EMR In Part One, we automated an example ELT workflow on Amaz...
Automating your ELT Workflows with Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow - Part One
update: I have changed the post to use standard Apache Airflow variables rather than using AWS Secret...
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April, 19th, 2021 - Instalment #64 Newsletter #64. Another great selection of posts this...
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April, 12th, 2021 - Instalment #63 Newsletter #63. No newsletter last week due to the ho...
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March 29th, 2021 - Instalment #62 Newsletter #62. This week we have some really interest...
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March 22nd, 2021 - Instalment #61 Newsletter #61. This week we have a lot of love for Ap...
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March 15th, 2021 - Instalment #60 Newsletter #60. This week is packed with posts for dat...
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March 8th, 2021 - Instalment #59 Newsletter #59. This week we have a really great selectio...
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March 1st, 2021 - Instalment #58 Newsletter #58. This week we have posts covering some of...
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February 22nd, 2021 - Instalment #57 Newsletter #57. This week we have another great sele...
AWS open source news and updates #56
February 15th, 2021 - Instalment #56 Newsletter #56. This week we have the latest update...
Monitoring and logging with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Part of a series of posts to support an up-coming online event, the Innovate AI/ML on February 24th,...
AWS open source news and updates #55
February 8th, 2021 - Instalment #55 Newsletter #55. Another newsletter full of great con...
A simple CI/CD system for your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow development workflow
updated Feb 19th Part of a series of posts to support an up-coming online event, the Innovate AI/M...
Interacting with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow via the command line
Part of a series of posts to support an up-coming online event, the Innovate AI/ML on February 24th...
AWS open source news and updates #54
February 1st, 2021 - Instalment #54 Newsletter #54. Lots to choose from this week. Catch u...
Accessing your Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow environments
Part of a series of posts to support an up-coming online event, the Innovate AI/ML on February 24th...
Working with permissions in Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Part of a series of posts to support an up-coming online event, the Innovate AI/ML on February 24th,...
Automating the installation and configuration of Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
updated, August 25th Thanks to Philip T for spotting a typo in the cloudformation code below - it is...
AWS open source news and updates #53
January 25th, 2021 - Instalment #53 Newsletter #53 This weeks newsletter has another grea...
AWS open source news and updates #52
January 18th, 2021 - Instalment #52 Newsletter #52 This week we have a number of posts co...
AWS open source news and updates No.51
January 11th, 2021 - Instalment #51 Welcome to Newsletter #51. This week we have a careful...
TIL: Testing an Amazon Cloudwatch alarm
Today I was setting up an application load balancer that sits in front of a test application I have p...
AWS open source news and updates No.50
January 4th, 2021 - Instalment #50 Newsletter #50 and the first one this year. I hope you...
AWS open source news and updates No.49
December 21st - Instalment #49 Week No.49 and this will be the last newsletter this year....
Job opportunity: Developer Advocate in the UK
A little under a year ago I wrote this post: Celebrate the ne...
AWS open source news and updates No.48
December 13th - Instalment #48 Week No.48 going into the final week of re:Invent this year...
AWS open source news and updates No.47
December 7th - Instalment #47 Week No.47 and with the first week of re:Invent over, it was...
AWS open source news and updates No. 46
November 30th - Instalment #46 Week No.46 and this week marks the beginning of re:Invent 2...
AWS open source news and updates No.45
November 23rd - Instalment #45 Week No.45 and this is the last edition before re:Invent so...
AWS open source news and updates No.44
November 16th - Instalment #44 Week No.44 and in a weekend just gone where Lewis Hamilton...
AWS open source news and updates No.43
November 9th - Instalment #43 Week No.43 or 101011 if you prefer binary notation. This wee...
AWS open source news and updates No.42
November 2nd - Instalment #42 Week No.42 - 42 may be the answer to the ultimate question o...
AWS open source news and updates No.41
October 26th - Instalment #41 Episode No.41 - As we approach Halloween this week, there is...
AWS open source news and updates No.40
October 19th - Instalment #40 Week No.40 - if life begins at 40 then I am pleased that thi...
Podcast - open source builders: Arpit Mohan
In this podcast I speak with Arpit Mohan, CTO and Co Founder of Appsmith an innovative no/low code pr...
Amazon Aurora - setting up and configuration, four ways
In this post I want to share four different approaches to installing and configuring your Amazon Auro...
AWS open source news and updates No. 39
October 12th - Instalment #39 Week No.39 - The 39 Steps is a pretty famous film, a spy thr...
AWS open source news and updates No. 38
October 5th - Instalment #38 Week No.38 and following on from the very first CDK Day, ther...
AWS open source news and updates No. 37
September 28th - Instalment #37 Week No.37 and plenty of open source goodness to sink your...
AWS open source news and updates No. 36
September 21st - Instalment #36 Week No.36 and this week have the usual round up of open s...
AWS open source news and updates No. 35
September 14th - Instalment #35 Week No.35, this week we have more great blog posts, proje...
Long running data import jobs with AWS Session Manager
Yesterday I was looking to import the TPC-H dataset (some 600 or so million rows) into Amazon Aurora...
Setting up TPC-H on Amazon Aurora MySQL
Over the past 20 years I have spent a significant amount of time doing all kinds of benchmarking test...
AWS open source news and updates No. 34
September 7th - Instalment #34 Week No.34, and another packed issue with some great posts,...
AWS open source news and updates No. 33
August 31st - Instalment #33 Week No.33, and as we come to the end of the summer season wi...
AWS open source news and updates No. 32
August 24th - Instalment #32 Week No.32 and after two weeks taking some time off visiting...
AWS open source news and updates No. 31
August 3rd - Instalment #31 Week No.31 and the last update for a few weeks. I will be taki...
AWS open source news and updates No. 30
July 27th - Instalment #30 Week No.30 and another week of great projects and posts. We hav...
Podcast - open source builders: Justin Garrison
In this podcast I speak with Justin Garrison, Developer Advocate in the Containers team at AWS, and a...
AWS open source news and updates No. 29
July 20th - Instalment #29 Week No.29, and another epic edition packed with lots of great...
Building a culture of security in open source software development
According to a number of recent studies, the use and adoption of open source software continues to ri...
AWS open source news and updates No. 28
July 13th - Instalment #28 Week No.28, and this week we have another fantastic collection...
AWS open source news and updates: Reference
Complete list of all posts in 2020 I have created this handy page that lists all the AWS...
AWS open source news and updates No. 27
July 6th - Instalment #27 Week No.27, and as the days start getting shorter, these weekly...
AWS open source news and updates No. 26
June 29th - Instalment #26 No.26 and officially the half way point of the year. There has...
AWS open source news and updates No. 25
June 22nd - Instalment #25 No.25 is another packed edition with plenty of interesting proj...
AWS open source news and updates No. 24
June 15th - Instalment #24 Another expansive instalment in No. 24, as we approach the half...
AWS open source news and updates No. 23
June 8th - Instalment #23 Episode 23 - I was reminded this week that I have now posted ove...
Automating AWS SSO and G-Suite synchronisation with SSO Sync
update-July 28th The ssosync tool has had a lot of interest and the community has updated...
AWS open source news and updates No. 22
June 1st - Instalment #22 Episode 22, and another great collection of open source stories,...
Setting up G-Suite, AWS SSO and ssosync
update-July 28th The ssosync tool has had a lot of interest and the community has updated...
AWS open sources new and updates - No. 21
May 25th - Instalment #21 Episode 21, another full edition. We have some significant annou...
AWS open source news and updates - No. 20
May 18th - Instalment #20 Episode 20, another packed episode with plenty to check out, and...
AWS open sources new and updates - No. 19
May 11th - Instalment #19 Episode 19, and this week's edition is bursting at the seams wit...
Making the most of mentoring
Some recent experiences mentoring has provided the motivation for this piece. It is not intended to b...
AWS open sources news and updates - No. 18
May 4th - Instalment #18 Episode 18, is the open source Force strong in you? A post from...
AWS open source news and updates - Instalment No. 17
April 27th - Instalment #17 Episode 17, and as we leave April and head into May, we have a...
AWS open source news and updates - No. 16
April 20th - Instalment #16 Episode 16, and like most folk confining myself to my home has...
AWS open source news and updates - No. 15
April 13th - Instalment #15 Episode 15, the Easter special and even though this is a holid...
AWS open source news and updates - No. 14
April 6th - Instalment #14 Episode 14, and yet more abundance of open source to share with...
AWS open source news and updates - No. 13
March 30th - Instalment #13 Episode 13, lucky for some, superstitious for others. I can pr...
AWS open source news and updates - No.12
March 23rd - Instalment #12 Episode 12 in the series of open source news and updates on AW...
Jitsi: An open source web conferencing solution
Enabling online team collaboration with open source software Teams across the world are lo...
AWS open source news and updates #11
March 16th - Instalment #11 Another packed weekly instalment of open source goodness for y...
AWS open source news and updates #10
March 9th - Instalment #10 Another bumper packed edition of everything new and interesting...
AWS open source news and updates #9 - Dart, Quarkus, Firecracker and much more
As we head into March and instalment #9 of AWS open source news and updates, over the past two months...
AWS open source news and updates #8
Another episode of the open source news and updates from AWS, and in this installmant I talk a little...
AWS open source news and updates #7 - networking, data analytics, security and more
Episode #7 of the open source news and updates for AWS. More security posts in this weeks updates, to...
AWS open source news and updates #6 - keep up to date with everything that is happening.
With still so much to digest post FOSDEM, SustainOSS and CHAOSS, this weeks updates are a little more...
AWS open source news and updates #5
So, hello February and welcome to open source updates and news at AWS #5, the FOSDEM edition. Sadly I...
AWS open source news and updates #4
Welcome to open source updates and news at AWS #4 the end of January 2020 edition. Keeping you up to...
What makes you want to contribute to an open source project?
Do you contribute to open source projects? What is it that you look for before spending time/effort i...
AWS open source news and updates #3
So, welcome to open source updates and news at AWS #3 - I should really try and thing of a more enter...
AWS open source news and updates #2
This is update #2 of open source at AWS (#1 here), the regular update where I will share updates and...
Event in London 10th Feb - Hiring in startups
Take a look at this event on 10th Feb in London if you are interested how startups approach hiring an...
We are hiring
Do you have a passion and unending enthusiasm for technology and cloud? Do you love learning and are...
AWS open source news and updates #1
This is the first in a regular series that will keep you posted on the open source projects, communit...
Mentoring and reverse mentoring
As I reflect on 2019, one of the common themes whilst engaging with builders at the start of their ca...
Celebrate the new year with a new job
As it is the time of year that many are now beginning to reflect on where they have been and what the...
reInvent 2019 workshop list
So here is a list scraped from Twitter and following various other folk, of just a small taster of th...
open source @ reInvent 2019
So, with reInvent drawing to close and many of the attendees recovering from the after party (re:Play...
Make your business more resilient in the digital age
Very humbled to write a guest post on Adrian Hornsby excellent blog where he provides guidance to hel...
Innovate Machine Learning and AI - learn how to kick start your journey
On October 17th we have a free, online event covering several tracks on Machine Learning. Whether you...