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…

My previous Mac was starting to overheat so it was swapped for another.

I decided to install things as I required them rather than restore from a Time Machine backup as I thought I’d probably built up a lot of things that did not need over the last couple of…

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…

A very welcome announcement at AWS re:Invent today https://aws.amazon.com/msk/

Here are my notes on getting it up and running.

The docs are pretty good at taking you through this. A couple of tips however. First you will need to update the AWS CLI on your EC2 machine via pip as…