Whilst working with AWS Glue recently I noticed that I was unable to use a view created in Athena as a source for an ETL job in the same way that I could use a table that had been cataloged. The error I received was this. An error occurred while…

It’s week two of re:Invent and that includes the first ever dedicated keynote for Machine Learning. Here are the features that I found interesting.

Silos Most organisations that process data will have experienced the concept of data in silos. This is where an application is built for a particular purpose and tied to a data store. …

It’s a different experience this year. The chat with my teammates is a mixture of discussion about new features and pictures of good times in Vegas from previous re:Invent conferences. Andy Jassy has finished the first keynote of 2020 and I was not disappointed. …

Here is my list of sessions for week one of re:Invent focussed around data and analytics. How to use fully managed Jupyter notebooks in Amazon SageMaker What’s new with Amazon S3 How BMW Group uses AWS serverless analytics for a data-driven ecosystem Innovate faster with applications on AWS storage Embed…

For a while now the teams i’m working with are doing really exciting things with the PostgreSQL database. I’m sure there will be more to share on that soon! We’re running in the AWS cloud and the vast majority of the time we really like it. One minor gripe we…

I wrote a guest blog for Elastic (You Know, for Search). Here it is https://www.elastic.co/blog/cdl-visualising-the-power-of-data-with-canvas-and-elasticsearch

I’m a big fan of Nest products having installed them in a few properties over the years. The cameras in particular paid for themselves several times over as they captured footage of a lorry that crashed into my wall and drove off. Whilst most Nest products are very simple to…