Maurice Borgmeier articles - 67 total
Building a Stream Deck plugin to invoke a Lambda function
Interacting with Cloud services is rarely a tactile experience. You write some code, run some command...
The thing I keep relearning about the S3-SNS/SQS integration
Occasionally, you'll do something that you think you've done dozens of times before and are then...
Which AWS Regions are Lambda@Edge functions executed in?
Lambda@Edge is one of two ways to run custom code as part of the request flow in CloudFront. In...
Integrating HubSpot with AWS Lambda
Like many organizations, tecRacer uses HubSpot as a CRM. Integrating Hubspot with other (internal)...
How I spent a few hours using advanced technology to save $2
I usually rely on Infrastructure as Code to build my solutions - usually, not always. In my AWS...
Building Data Aggregation Pipelines using Apache Airflow and Athena
Decisions about running a company are rarely made based on individual transactions. Instead, business...
How to accidentally create read-only DynamoDB items
In a recent Developing on AWS training, I taught my students the basics of DynamoDB. I usually do...
Making the TPC-H dataset available in Athena using Airflow
The TPC-H dataset is commonly used to benchmark data warehouses or, more generally, decision support...
Enabling Apache Airflow to copy large S3 objects
If you're trying to use Apache Airflow to copy large objects in S3, you might have encountered issues...
You can't Opt-Out of Performance Tracking in the AWS Console
I've been using the AWS console with the Firefox Developer tools open recently for totally innocent...
Improving Accessibility by Generating Image-alt texts using GenAI
I'm fairly skeptical about GenAI. I've managed to stay away from all the copilots so far and try to...
Casio F-91W: a simple watch
A few years I got a Casio F-91W watch (Wikipedia). I was looking for something that can double as a...
Going on an Industry Quest: Manufacturing and Auto
I currently have some time on my hands and decided to dive deeper into the AWS Skill Builder....
Switching Identity Providers in the IAM Identity Center
Mergers and acquisitions are usually decided at the top of the corporate hierarchy and eventually...
Analyzing my Amazon Purchases with Pandas and Dash
Thanks to some EU regulation or because out of the goodness of their hearts, Amazon now allows you to...
Replacing the Battery in my Sennheiser PXC 550 Headphones
Almost 7 years ago, I treated myself to a nice pair of wireless headphones. I bought the Sennheiser...
Introduction to SSO with the IAM Identity Center and Entra ID
IAM Identity Center, formerly AWS SSO, is often used as an access management solution in front of one...
Using undocumented AWS APIs with Python
It's probably not a surprise that (almost) everything Amazon Web Services offers is accessible...
Adding Cognito Authentication to our Serverless Dash App
In a recent post, I‘ve shown you how to add HTTP Basic Authentication to the Serverless Dash app....
Build a Serverless S3 Explorer with Dash
S3 is a great way to store your data in AWS, and it has many integrations with other services. That's...
Replacing the Battery on a HP Spectre x360
After working on my Chromebook a few weeks ago, it's time to turn to another Notebook that needs...
Adding Basic Authentication to the Serverless Dash App
In a recent post explained how to set up a Dash app in a completely serverless manner. If you haven't...
Giving my old Chromebook a second life with Fedora
In 2017 I got my brother a Chromebook as a lightweight computer for traveling. I chose the Acer...
Deploying a Serverless Dash App with AWS SAM and Lambda
Today I'm going to show you how to deploy a Dash app in a Lambda Function behind an API Gateway. This...
Understanding Iterations in Ray RLlib
Recently I’ve been engaged in my first reinforcement learning project using Ray’s RLlib and...
Code Optimization: Filtering dataframes using exact matches in multiple columns
Filtering medium to large amounts of data to extract a relevant subset is a very common task in any...
Teaching boto3 to store floats and datetime objects in DynamoDB
The resource API in boto3 is a higher-level abstraction that lets you interact with AWS services in a...
Handling Errors and Retries in StepFunctions
"Everything fails all the time" has been preached to us by Werner Vogels for a few years now. Every...
Advanced Credential Rotation for IAM Users with a Grace Period
The credentials attached to an IAM user are long-lived, which means a combination of access key id...
Push-Down-Predicates in Parquet and how to use them to reduce IOPS while reading from S3
Working with datasets in pandas will almost inevitably bring you to the point where your dataset...