I was working on a personal project where I needed some way to to save URL's / Bookmarks of websites that I come across that I would like to reference at a later time. I eventually decided to develop a web
Ruan Bekker
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Generating Sensible Transaction Data with Python
The other day, I was facing a scenario where I had to setup bucketing with Hive and I needed some sample data, but in the same way I thought it would've been nice to have some random data, but that
Secure Access to Kibana on AWS Elasticsearch Service
With Amazon Web Services offering of Elasticsearch you can secure your search domain using resource-based, IP-Based, and IAM user and role-based access policies. However, these do not apply for Kibana. You can secure your endpoint using IP-Based access policies, and
AWS Elasticsearch Register S3 Repository for Snapshots using the CLI
In order to make a manual Snapshot in Amazon's Elasticsearch Service, we need to create a S3 repository where the data will reside. In order to do this, we need to sign the request with an IAM role that grants
Generate Random Data for MongoDb
a Python script to generate random data to MongoDb using the Faker library for Python. I will include some of my scripts for Elasticsearch, DynamoDB and CSV at the bottom of this post. Dependencies: $ pip install pymongo $ pip install fake-factory
Searching Data with Python and ElasticSearch
In this tutorial I will show you how to get started with Python and Elasticsearch, to be able to search for people's Name and Email addresses, based on their Job Descriptions. I will show you how to get setup, populate
Build a Search Engine with PHP and Elasticsearch
The idea was to test the functionality of elasticsearch. I developed a basic website to be able to add bookmarks and references to websites, with the functionality of adding descriptive information about the bookmark. So then when I search for
AWS DataPipeline: S3 Backup Script Example using AWS CLI Activity
In this tutorial, I will show you how to launch a pipeline via the CLI. Why the CLI? Because anything using the CLI is AWESOME! We will launch a AWS CLI Activity, where we are going to backup files from
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