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How Going Freelance Changed My Work Mindset
A personal journey from employee comfort zone to entrepreneurial thinking, where every decision impacts the bottom line and authentic results become the only currency that matters.
The Data Preview Challenge at DataByte Co.
DataByte Co. worked around Lake Formation limitation by creating a custom solution for secure data previews.
TIL #5: A Look into ASSOCIATE permission for your AWS Data Lake
This TIL presents the importance of ASSOCIATE permission in Lake Formation.
TIL #4: The Golden Rule of Cloud: "No Tag, No Existence"
This TIL presents the fundamental principle of tagging cloud resources for improved management and FinOps control. It details the impact of missing tags, proposes essential tags, and emphasizes automation to ensure their consistent application.
TIL #3: Automating Data Lake Governance: The Power of Infrastructure as Code (CDK/CloudFormation)
This TIL demonstrates the importance of using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for managing your Lake Formation governance. It explains the key benefits of automation and provides concrete examples of deploying Lake Formation configurations via AWS CloudFormation and CDK.
TIL #2: From SQL-like to ABAC: Elevating Your Data Governance with Lake Formation Tags
This TIL introduces Lake Formation's SQL-like granular permissions and highlights the limitations of traditional access management at scale. It then presents Lake Formation tags (ABAC) as a scalable approach to simplify and automate data access policies.
TIL #1: LakeFormation: Your Data Lake’s Double Lock 🔒
This TIL explains how AWS Lake Formation acts as an additional security layer for your Data Lake. It clarifies the essential interaction between IAM and Lake Formation permissions, and discusses S3 location registration as a prerequisite for effective data governance
The Power of Intellectual Humility in Tech
Fostering Innovation Through 'I Don't Know’: A Data Engineer’s Perspective