Cargo Crates 🚚

All good ideas start with a Tweet. 😁 Perhaps a silly question, but does anybody have an ETL framework where they just spin up docker containers with different params? pic.twitter.com/rvDRVTD3gY — Damon Cortesi (@dacort) February 10, 2021 I’m often hopping around to different APIs and only want a slice of data. And I get frustrated with having to: Find the right API client Reimplement authentication Store credentials in different places Maintain it And so on, and so on....

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Log4j.us 🪵

I made this while working at Metabase. As the Head of Success Engineering, I was often tasked with helping customers reproduce various edge cases. As part of this, we often needed more logs. The classes I wanted to enable DEBUG logs for also often differed depending on the specific situation the customer was encountering. 💁 Did you know that log4j supports loading a configuration from an https URL? I didn’t....

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Metabase Athena Driver 📊

I first used Metabase in 2016 when I built an internal BI site for my startup, Simply Measured. I joined AWS in 2017, largely because I was so inspired by Amazon Athena. So it only made sense that in 2019 I would make a Metabase Athena Driver…shortly before I joined the Metabase team. 🙌...

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