Cloud Infrastructure

A collection of 16 posts

If cloud platforms were people (thoughts from a Generative AI) cover image
Cloud Infrastructure,  Generative AI,  AWS,  Azure,  GCP

If cloud platforms were people (thoughts from a Generative AI)

Can you relate to these? As of writing this blog post, I have been really enjoying the new releases in Google’s Gemini AI for both images…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering,  Python,  DuckDB

Quackpipe, running DuckDB local and on AWS Glue

Quackpipe Stop waiting for AWS Glue jobs while in development by using a local-first workflow with DuckDB and deploy with Terraform. Your…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering,  Python,  Salesforce

Query Salesforce with Python

Query SalesForce objects with Python Ever found yourself exporting data from Salesforce using the Web UI over and over again. Ever wished…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering,  GCP,  Machine Learning,  Python,  Software Engineering

Making Machine Learning predictions from BigQuery Dataform

NFL Touchdown Prediction with Dataform and BigQuery ML This blog post demonstrates how to build an end-to-end ML pipeline using Google Cloud…

The Tale of Two Routes: A Love Story Between BigQuery and Vertex AI for Machine Learning predictions cover image
Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering,  GCP,  Machine Learning,  Python,  Software Engineering

The Tale of Two Routes: A Love Story Between BigQuery and Vertex AI for Machine Learning predictions

This blog post is the first, and probably last where I thought I would see what the Github Copilot VSCode extension could do with writing a…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  MLOps,  Machine Learning,  Python

GCP Serverless prediction service using Cloud Run from a Vertex AI model

Deploying ML Models on Cloud Run: From Placeholder to Production This guide walks through deploying a machine learning model on Google Cloud…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering,  DevOps

Checking the public IP address of a GCP Cloud Function

Public IP address of a GCP Cloud Function When you deploy a Cloud Function without configuring a VPC, it operates within Google’s internal…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering

Debugging Dataform with Node.js in VScode

Debugging Dataform with Node.js in VScode Debugging Dataform JavaScript If you happen to be a data engineer who is not familiar with the…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering

GCP Cloud Functions for Web Scraping AFL data

Scraping web data using GCP Cloud Functions The main reason for this blog post is a practical example of writing a GCP Cloud Function with…

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Web Development,  Cloud Infrastructure,  System Administration

Flask application with Postgres containerized across multiple clouds

Flask app with a Postgres database containerized across multiple clouds Background We are building out an application that has a decoupled…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Science,  System Administration

Databricks security model architecture

Overview Let’s say we have a brand new Databricks resource that we have just created from Azure. It comes as an empty shell ready for use…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Science,  System Administration

Databricks and Azure DevOps CICD Pipeline for DBFS

DevOps CICD Pipeline for Databricks This is in reference to this Git repo https://dev.azure.com/mortimer-xyz/mortie23/_git/dbfs-cicd-pieline…

Model scoring API as a Docker container cover image
Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Science

Model scoring API as a Docker container

Use Docker to host a Python FastAPI service In my preview blog post (Model scoring API) I went through the technical basics of a model…

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System Administration,  Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Engineering

Installing Prefect Server on Azure

Reading Firstly I came across the following docs on how to install prefect server Prefect Server 101 Deploying to GCP Deploying to a Single…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Data Science,  System Administration,  R

RStudio with SSL proxy

What are we doing We have a server hosting RStudio, and we want encrypt the traffic too and from the RStudio service. We also do not want to…

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Cloud Infrastructure,  Web Development

Setting up a cloud webserver for hosting a static site

Why would I want to do this? Since there are many easier (options) for hosting a static website (of which I recommend and also use Github…