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AWS Lambdas – Python vs Rust. Performance and Cost Savings.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Someone on Linkedin recently brought up the point that companies could save gobs of money by swapping out AWS Python lambdas for Rust ones. At least it’s an excuse to […] The post AWS Lambdas – Python vs Rust. While it raised the ire of many a Python Data Engineer, I thought it sounded like a great idea.

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Handling a Regional Outage: Comparing the Response From AWS, Azure and GCP

The Pragmatic Engineer

13 June 2023: AWS. The largest AWS region (us-east-1) degraded heavily for 3 hours, impacting 104 AWS services. We did a deepdive into this incident earlier in AWS’s us-east-1 outage. We’ll also learn how this article contributed to AWS publishing its first public postmortem in two years!

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What Is AWS DMS And Why You Shouldn’t Use It As An ELT

Seattle Data Guy

Recently, I’ve encountered a few projects that used AWS DMS, which is almost like an ELT solution. It was interesting to see AWS DMS used in this manner. As… Read more The post What Is AWS DMS And Why You Shouldn’t Use It As An ELT appeared first on Seattle Data Guy. But it’s not what DMS was built for.

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AWS S3 Tables. Technical Introduction.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Well, everyone is abuzz with the recently announced S3 Tables that came out of AWS reinvent this year. I tried them out, in real life that is, not just some marketing buzz, and it will leave most people, not all, be […] The post AWS S3 Tables. I’m going to call fools gold on this one right out of the gate.

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Polars vs Pandas. Inside an AWS Lambda.

Confessions of a Data Guy

Inside an AWS Lambda. I also enjoy doing simple things, things that have a “real-life” feel to them. I suppose I could be like the others […] The post Polars vs Pandas. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Building a Fast, Light, and CHEAP Lake House with DuckDB, Delta Lake, and AWS Lambda

Confessions of a Data Guy

Checkout this video where I dive into how I build just such a Lake House using Modern Data Stack tools like […] The post Building a Fast, Light, and CHEAP Lake House with DuckDB, Delta Lake, and AWS Lambda appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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DuckDB … reading from s3 … with AWS Credentials and more.

Confessions of a Data Guy

What was not clear, or easy, was trying to figure out how DuckDB would LIKE to read default AWS […] The post DuckDB … reading from s3 … with AWS Credentials and more. appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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