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ElastiCache for Redis is HIPAA compliant while ElastiCache for Memcached is not https://www.hipaaguide.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hipaa-facts.png What is ElastiCache?…
S3 events notifications supports standard SNS topics and standard SQS queues as destinations but don't support SNS FIFO and SQS FIFO. S3 events notifications enables you to be…
You can use Amazon SNS FIFO (first in, first out) topics and Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues together to provide strict message ordering and message…
Delay queues let you postpone the delivery of new messages to a queue for a number of seconds AWS documentation This means that all the messages which are pushed to this queue…
[AWS] independently map Availability Zones too names for each account AWS documentation This means that eu-west-1a in my account is not necessarily the same as eu-west-1a in your…
Conducting a Successful Onboarding Plan and Onboarding Process - I believe that onboarding is important for the entire employment period. It helps setting expectations, getting to…
I read AWS tagging best practices whitepaper which was published in December 2018 and distilled 5 takeaways. 1. Use cases - tags have several use-cases including: Cost allocation…
5 years ago I published a blog post about 5 blogs I read in Hebrew. three of those are still live and kicking and I enjoy them ( reversim , software archiblog , the bloggerit )…
9 Steps to Software Project Handovers - handover is always a challenge and especially when a person leaves the organization and is no longer available for questions or able to…
As I collect items for my posts and wait until I have time to write about them I noticed I have many items related to AWS and decided to have a special edition. 12 Common…
How Hashicorp works - Hashicorp develops open-source products that are widely used in the industry including Terraform, Vault, Consul, etc. "How HashiCorp Works" provides a…
You Are Probably Not Making The Most of Pandas “read_csv” Function - this might seems trivial and everything can be found in the documentation but it is well served here with many…
- 5 tips for using Pandas·2 min
Recently, I worked closely with Pandas and found out a few things that are might common knowledge but were new to me and helped me write more efficient code in less time. 1. Don't…
How to set compensation using commonsense principles - yet another artwork by Erik Bernhardsson. I like his analytics approach and the way he models his ideas. His manifest…
Yesterday I read Boris Gorelik post - Before and after: Alternatives to a radar chart (spider chart) and I also wanted to used this visualization but using Plotly. So I created…
I have recently listened to GitLab's " Remote management course " in Coursera. While there are companies that are remote-first and were built like that or chose to adopt this…
Mirror Mirror - Reflections on Quantitative Fairness - this is one of the first pieces I read about algorithmic fairness and caught my attention. It surveys the most common…
DBScan practitioners guide - DBScan is a density-based clustering method. One important advantage comparing to K-means is DBScan's ability to identify noise and outliers. I feel…
- Connected Papers is Here·1 min
Almost a year ago I published a blog post about " 5 ways to follow publications in your field ". Yesterday I was exposed to a new tool - Connected Papers . Connected Papers…
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost - if you have a capacity for only 10 words, those are the 10 words you should take -…
I read a blog post about DevSkiller report analyzing some trends and I read the original report and I have some comments to make. “Companies from Israel are the most selective”…
I run into this medium post today - " How To Capitalize All Words in a String in Python ". It explains how to c onvert “hello world” to “Hello World” but it does it the hard way.…
- argparse choices·1 min
I saw this post in Medium regarding argparse, which suggests the following - parser.add_argument("--model", help="choose model architecture from: vgg19 vgg16 alexnet", type=str) I…
Bonus - R-miss-tastic - theoretical background and resources which relate to R missing values package. I recommend the lecture notes. https://rmisstastic.netlify.com/lectures/…
I saw the following post about list comprehension tricks in Python . I really like python comprehension functionality - dict, set, list, I don’t discriminate. So 3 follow up notes…