Auth0 can be configured as the identity provider for AWS, allowing your Auth0 users to directly log in to the AWS Console. Unfortunately, the functionality to obtain temporary access keys for calling AWS APIs and resources has been deprecated since June 8, 2017. With this command line utility, you can obtain AWS access keys through Auth0.

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AWS Lambda provides support for quite a few languages out of the box, but oddly enough there are no functional languages in the list. Our esteemed colleague Arjan Molenaar of Xebia has added support for Elixir, a very readable functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM. Read the full blog on https://xebia.com/blog/building-an-elixir-runtime-for-aws-lambda/.

AWS has just opened the AWS Sweden Region. It is based in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden and has the name ‘eu-north-1’. Five regions AWS now provides five regions in europe. Each region provides three availability zones which means you now have fifteen availability zones to create highly resilient applications in Europe. Region name API name Number of AZs Stockholm eu-north-1 3 Frankfurt eu-central-1 3 Ireland eu-west-1 3 London eu-west-2 3 Paris eu-west-3 3 Deploying a bucket in Stockholm To deploy a bucket in Stockholm, just change the region to ‘eu-north-1’ and execute the CloudFormation template like in the example project that we have prepared. Read more...

In my previous posts I talked about data from a high level perspective and introduced Apache Avro, a data serialization system. This time we are going to get hands-on with Apache Avro and look at Schemas Introducing the domain We need to have a domain and because this is a blog, lets keep the domain simple. Lets create a domain that consists of a single person entity. The person entity will change over time, and we will have three versions. Read more...

In my previous posts I talked about data from a high level perspective. This time we are going to look at a data serialization system called Apache Avro. Introducting Apache Avro Apache Avro is created by Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, Lucene and Nutch, specifically designed as an open data serialization system. Apache Avro is used by data processing systems like Hadoop, Spark and Kafka, and is the de-facto data serialization system for high volume, high performance, high throughput, data processing systems. Read more...

The Scala Build Tool or sbt for short, is a build tool for building source code. It is a very advanced tool that is based on a workflow engine. In contrast to other build tools, scala is very simple, well, if you know just a couple of concepts. Concepts Lets introduce the core concepts of our build. When we create a project for example with the following command: sbt new dnvriend/scala-seed. Read more...

Now, this time I want to talk about data, in an informal way so we get a high level understanding what data is. That way we get a feeling for data as a concept, and how we can shape and design data to become a valuable asset. Introducing Data Lets meet data. Data lives in our computers, and drives the modern industry. Data is everywhere and plays a big part in our daily lives. Read more...

When designing your data lake, there a lot of aspects that guide the design. In this blog we’ll look at how we can compose a data lake from a very small component called a ‘data segment’. Lets take a look! The Data Segment The data segment is a small component that is a building block for data lakes. The data segment provides streaming ingestion, streaming transformation, streaming aggregation and data persistence capabilities. Read more...

A lot of organisations turn to BigQuery as a datawarehouse solution. But as the amount of tables increases and the number of users grows, it is easy to lose track of what data is accessed by whom. Authorized Views can help organize and control access to your sensitive data. They don’t require you to change your logical dataset design and still enable your applications and analysts to use the full power of BigQuery. Read more...

The Swift Package Manager (SwiftPM) is a tool for building your Swift applications. Just like other build tools like Maven or Gradle, SwiftPM manages project dependencies, and can build, test and publish packages. SwiftPM provides a standard way to build Swift applications and is a replacement for build tools like CocoaPods and Carthage. SwiftPM is a cross platform build system that is available for MacOS and Linux. Apple published an introduction video Getting to Know Swift Package Manager - Apple WWDC 2018 and SwiftPM has been documented. Read more...