It’s no big secret that facial recognition is totally a thing these days, and it’s probably also not a big secret that cloud vendors like AWS have services that can make facial recognition amazingly easy to implement. So let’s go ahead and see just how easy it is, ok? There are plenty of tutorials outContinue reading “The Time I Wanted to Rekognize Your Face”
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The Time I Wanted to Try Serverless File Ingestion
In a recent past life, one of the things we did a whole lot of was taking in data from our clients in the form of csv or other flat files via sftp and then staging them in a database or data lake for further processing & analysis. There were a few too many movingContinue reading “The Time I Wanted to Try Serverless File Ingestion”
Loading Twitter Data into Snowflake the Easy Way
There I was, all proud of myself for finding a GitHub repository with a set of Snowflake processors so I could ingest all that Twitter data via Apache Nifi. It was good work, and it solved a problem. But something about it didn’t feel right. There were a lot of steps, and it seemed likeContinue reading “Loading Twitter Data into Snowflake the Easy Way”
The Time I Wanted to Send Twitter Data into a Database Part 4: Snowflake
UPDATE: Turns out this the hard way. It’s sort of like long division– You’ll learn lots along the way that makes the easy way make more sense, and you can tell your kids when you were young you had to load data uphill. Both ways. In the snow(flake). But if you just want to doContinue reading “The Time I Wanted to Send Twitter Data into a Database Part 4: Snowflake”
Electric Boogaloo 