See the announcement: Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Let’s start by asking what is Apache Airflow and why it plays an important part in automating the data flow in your business? Airflow is a standardized tool and framework that gives you visibility to your data flow end-to-end from ingestion to output (or multiple times over). It has a great graphical view showing users status of each workflow called DAG (Directed Acyclic Graphs).

Was about to head to Chicago for the Disability:IN conference, however due to the pandemic, the conference is now held virtually. While the number of speakers and plenaries may not be as great as if it was held in person, it still looks like a great lineup of speakers and companies making their presence known, in other words, holding up their “We’re Hiring!” signs. DAY ONE Started off with some words of encouragement for companies to join the Disability Equality Index also known as the DEI.

Deaf in the Cloud hosted by Robert Koch presents Troubleshooting AWS Deployments with Darren Weiner. Imagine for a minute you’re working with a cloud provider and provisioning features left and right; all of a sudden someone else runs a cloud formation script and broke something! We will do a deep-dive into a typical AWS VPC design and discussing well-architected designs. There’ll be a live demostration, and if you have your own AWS account, you can follow along.

Global leading AWS recruiter, Jefferson Frank, recently got in touch with me about an opportunity for an important project they were working on. In response to the Covid-19 crisis, they have collated expert advice from leading AWS Heroes and professionals into an industry whitepaper, of which I am proud to say I am part of. The whitepaper covers five common challenges many are struggling with at this moment: cost saving, data security, remote working, growing at scale, and business continuity.

Introduction I’m doing a series on how C# works with AWS databases. AWS has 12 different databases all under different categories. Plagarizing the chart promiently displayed on the AWS Database page, I’ll go through each serverless and managed database one and see how my preferred language, C#, works. If you REALLY want it done in Python too, I can do that for you. Database Types Use cases AWS service Relational Traditional applications, ERP, CRM, e-commerce Aurora, RDS, RedShift [NoSQL](#NoSQL) High-traffic web apps, e-commerce systems, gaming applications, content management, catalogs, user profiles DynamoDB, DocumentDB In-memory Coming soon.

I was about to schedule an AWS certification exam when everything was on hold due to the desire to maintain social distancing and keeping everyone healthy and safe. Regardless of your views, it’s important to play it safe rather than risking our lives especially when there are many unknowns involving COVID-19. In light of the situtation, it’s understandable that all exam centers were closed. When I heard that AWS Training & Certifications in partnership with Pearson VUE had announced they will open up online testing, I immediately booked an exam two weeks out!

Introduction I’ve been thinking about this topic for quite some time and while I’m putting this into this blog, it is a small part of a larger discussion. When we design and implement business systems, your eye is always on the workflow process and getting data from Point A to Point B as quickly and accurately as possible. Accuracy of the data is a business necessity and we have many ways to do this.

Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada December 1-6 What. A. Week! That pretty much sums it up. This was my third re:Invent, first as a AWS Data Hero. The week started with the flight in, and it’s been pretty much non-stop from there. On the flight home, I actually nodded off, and I’m the type of person who cannot sleep while moving. That’s in addition to returning from a long vacation driving across western states bypassing a snowstorm and high winds for two days just to get home to make my Las Vegas flight the next day.

Westin Seattle August 19-21 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, ... Some of you might remember the above paragraph is taken from the start of A Tales of Two Cities by Charles Dickens written in 1859.

Tuesday July 23rd, 2019 - 5:30pm EST Thank you for attending the talk! Below are recording, slides, and python code. Recording Slides Code Presented by Robert Koch Lambda is one of the core services from AWS (Amazon Web Services). Robert will introduce you to the workflow you can use to develop compute functions that usually ties components together whether they’re on AWS or not. AWS competitors, Azure Functions and Google Cloud Functions, both have similar development workflow and cost as Lambdas.