In the last couple of months, I led a team to build a comprehensive and open-sourced solution that helps customers analyze clickstream events on the cloud. The solution provides data autonomy, allowing users full access to raw data, near real-time ingestion, flexible configurations, and cost-effectiveness. It is a …
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In today's digital age, businesses are constantly seeking ways to understand and analyze user behavior on their websites. Clickstream events provide valuable insights into how users interact with a website, and analyzing this data can help businesses make informed decisions to improve user experience and drive …
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Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS PrivateLink as of March 19, 2024. This feature allows you to securely access DynamoDB from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your traffic to the public internet. However, unlike VPC endpoints for other AWS managed services, the AWS PrivateLink for Amazon DynamoDB …
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Serverless computing is all the rage, promising pay-as-you-go magic and freedom from infrastructure woes. But what about serverless for data warehouses? Let's delve into the fascinating (and sometimes confusing) world of Redshift Serverless: its cost structure, ideal use cases, and situations where it might not be the …
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AWS CDK accelerates cloud development using common programming languages to model your applications. I had a series of posts using CDK to demonstrate Building serverless web applications with AWS Serverless. Because CDK uses a programming language to model your application, you can encapsulate your library via …
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Disclaimer: the cover image was generated by Amazon Bedrock's Titan Image Generator G1. AWS CLI is a swiss knife for orchestrating the operations of AWS resources. Especially, the filter option could help your filter and transform the output then combine with other Linux commands together. This post collects the CLI …
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Disclaimer: the cover image was generated by StableDiffusionXL with prompts 'cover image, spring boot, flask framework running in aws lambda'. When deploying and operating a web application on the cloud, you prefer to use your favorite programming language and web framework. Also, you want to benefit from Serverless …
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When programming with the AWS SDK, developers sometimes want to debug a specific HTTP request when invoking an SDK API. Due to the poor documentation of AWS JS SDK v3, it takes a lot of work to find a way to print the verbose logging of AWS SDK by asking it to the LLMs. Below is a practical tip for enabling verbose …
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Application Programming Interfaces(APIs) is a critical part of the web service, Werner Vogel, the CTO of AWS had a great 6 Rules for Good API Design presentation in 2021 re:Invent keynote. In AWS the developers could manage and proxy the APIs via Amazon API Gateway. The developers can use console, CLI, API or IaC …
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DevOps pipeline is a key component of project operation, it helps you automate steps in your software delivery process. Amazon itself has rich expirence on DevOps with large scale services, it shares the lesson and learn from operating the Amazon's services. You can read this summary post written in Chinese. Also AWS …
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