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AWS MSK + Glue – Part One

Over December 2022 I got it into my head that I wanted my teams to skill up on the combination of Kafka and a Schema Register. There’s a ton of resources on introducing the use of Kafka, and some resources on using a Schema Registry, but I was not satisfied that there were any consolidated […]

Give me a shell and a place to stand…

I was thinking yesterday “hmm, I seem to have more AWS KMS keys than I’m actually using”. But how to find them when they are scattered across regions? AWS Cli to the rescue. A trivial bash script, and voila a list of KMS Key ARNs across my entire account: The only complicated part was remembering how to use jq to […]

Wasabi and AWS S3 – A comparison

Wasabi is a very interesting and compelling competitor for AWS S3, but also potentially a superb collaborator. What are Wasabi and S3 though? Stripping these services down to their barest bones, they are cloud-based, highly available and resilient object stores with effectively unlimited storage capacity. Digging a bit further, they are both key/value stores, which […]