Relentless creator. Principal Dev Advocate for Analytics @AWS. Data dude in a serverless world, aspiring logger. 🪵 he/him/beard
Seattle, WA
Joined December 2006
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Damon Cortesi retweeted
Interesting Data Gigs # 52: Who is hiring this week: Open roles at @trends_vc @GoodRx @ipinfoio @infleqtion @SnowflakeDB @HamptonFounders @cohere @IonQ_Inc @nexhealthHQ
newsletter.interestinggigs.c… vía @marcosluis2186
cc’ing @DruRly @thesamparr @sarah_schupp @carlvellotti
Damon Cortesi retweeted
This post from @dacort is really handy as a reference when you start your journey with Athena. Specifically if you are locking down least privilege IAM and want to understand what services get called
community.aws/posts/what-hap…
Damon Cortesi retweeted
Read a letter from Schweitzer President & CEO, Tom Chasse about the sale of Schweitzer to Alterra Mountain Company bit.ly/45K1N2c
Damon Cortesi retweeted
🚨 Biased language in job postings for big tech companies has increased 70% in the past 3 years 🚨
I interviewed @KieranSnyder, CEO of @textio, about this trend, and its overall impact on corporate diversity metrics, in this @Forbes article.
forbes.com/sites/rebekahbast…
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✨ Now with answer! (Thanks @dacort)
I spent an hour randomly jiggling things to unbreak this… who wants to tell me why it did what it did? (I still don't know; I'm just blogging the error to help others)
✍🏻 Blogged: Using Delta from pySpark - java.lang.ClassNotFoundException rmoff.net/2023/04/05/using-d…
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it stopped displaying the text showing if something's a retweet. They're all just unlabeled retweets (if you're on the web and not seeing it, a cache clear refresh will make your feed broken too so don't do that!)
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Major breakthrough: the engineering team at STOIC just completed a first integration of @DuckDB with @ApacheIceberg, without the use of Spark. We're now able to query any Iceberg table from one EC2 VM with filter pushdown to lambdas.
Damon Cortesi retweeted
🎥🦆Can't decide if this #DuckDB video is for real, if it's a piss-take, or a wonderful combination of both :D youtube.com/watch?v=8VfPX06b… #datadon
Damon Cortesi retweeted
WHAT KILLED THE CRABS?
The official story is something like “a billion snow crabs disappeared.”
If that sounds fishy to you, keep reading. Let’s dive into the ecology, oceanography, & geopolitical history of the Bering Sea.
A science thread on crabs, corruption, & collapse: 🦀
ALT CBS EVENING NEWS > Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs
ALT News 1 billion crabs go missing, causing cancellation of Alaskan snow crab season
ALT Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone
ALT The Washington Post Alaska’s snow crabs have disappeared. Where they went is a mystery.
Damon Cortesi retweeted
You don't want to miss: Petabyte-scale lakehouses with dbt and Apache Hudi
@byte_array and @iamvinoth from Onehouse and Apple
coalesce.getdbt.com/agenda/p…
Damon Cortesi retweeted
[1/6] New model for Merlin Sound ID! We’ve been hard at work this summer improving performance and adding 186 new species, including 150 common Neotropical species! This is a drop in the bucket for this region, but it’s a start! @MacaulayLibrary @MerlinBirdID @CornellBirds
Damon Cortesi retweeted
Starting now! twitch.tv/colmmacc
3PM PST today I'm going to do a stream over at twitch.tv/colmmacc on control theory! Without any math we'll dive into the CT approach to building systems. Even a short intro to the basics completely changes how you effectively you approach designs ... and life!
Damon Cortesi retweeted
Good tips 👉 Build a high-performance, transactional data lake using open-source Delta Lake on Amazon EMR buff.ly/3LSCamu #AWS #Analytics #DataLake
Damon Cortesi retweeted
This Sunday marks 30 years since the release of the greatest hacker movie of all time: Sneakers.
I've been saving stuff I've seen about Sneakers on Twitter for literally months; a quick thread about why this movie is so timeless and links to sources for more reading.
ALT Sneakers (1992) movie poster
ALT James Earl Jones and Robert Redford from a scene in Sneakers (1992)
ALT Cast of Sneakers (1992) posing at the Embarcadero in San Francisco with the Bay, Treasure Island, and Bay Bridge in the background
Damon Cortesi retweeted
TIL: You Can Build Portable Binaries of Python Applications hynek.me/til/python-portable…
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Mount Rainier is not erupting - the sort of behavior seen in this video is not unusual.
And in fact there are a number of USGS volcanologists at the volcano this week working on installing new monitoring equipment, so Cascades Volcano Observatory folks are on site to confirm!
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Follow Geoff’s thread if you can’t make the stream
Catching @colmmacc replaying his @AWSreInforce talk about a framework AWS uses for thinking about securing access to data. Starting with defense in depth.
ALT What are we defending against? Defense in depth against bugs, issues, operational errors and mistakes, and worst-case untrusted access.
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Starting in about 15 minutes over at twitch.tv/colmmacc
I'm going to to a more interactive livestream version of my reinforce talk on twitch.tv/colmmacc tomorrow - 4PM Pacific time - it's all about how AWS, our customers, and others, can build and operate systems without having access to customer data.
