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In today's installment of, let's macro the heck out of this SaaS system, things didn't go entirely as I had planned.

Holy macros is right. dbt macros that is.

Okay, okay, that's not what dbt stands for. Data Build Tool, or dbt for short, is all the rage in the ELT world right now

Here we are, three days beyond my birthday and I am thinking about what comes next. I am in a happy spot in my career, I have finally started driving my 1965 Volkswagen Bus regularly, and my mental health is the best it has ever been (Escitalopgram 15mg daily, Adderall 10mg twice daily, DIM and Inositol supplements daily for energy and metabolism, probiotics in the morning because gut health is crucial, and birth control 24/7 to help PMDD). Phew, it's a lot, I know. So, wha

I have a really strong connection to Andy Irons, not physically or even in the real world, but more of an energy based connection. When...

Getting towards the end of our CRM Data Lake integration, we are down to the nitty gritty. The nitty gritty is actually quite a bit of grit

It's been a hot minute since my last entry about AWS Glue and our project is moving along, almost fully in our production environment!

I long for the sea. Not like, "Oh, I want to go to the beach." It's all I can think about.

Today Whit dabbles in AWS Glue. If you recall from our last blog, my team is working on creating a data lake

I am not trying to profess to be a vintage Volkswagen expert, but I can tell you a few things about what to look for when you are buying a b

If you recall from previous posts, I am a Data Engineer in the Healthcare SaaS (software as a service) space. One of the tasks I have been

Navigating your way through the IT world can be confusing, especially when you don't have the formal degree with a specialty that you have worked towards. There are any number of ways to go (software, databases, support, QA, etc.), and under each of those umbrellas there are any number of roles. Not to mention, those roles change as tech changes or as ideas on value change. For me, a classically trained Geologist ("I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology..

I am the queen of "under promise, over deliver." What does that mean? That means I have panicked about your deadline and am trying to figure out how I can deliver what you need in the timeframe you specified. The root of all of this: anxiety over perfection and the need for validation. I am a newer DBA. Lucky for me I was given the opportunity to spend about a year proving myself before I was graciously offered the position of Cloud Database Administrator at my company.

"Living your best life" is a phrase I have seen quite a bit as of late. It's prevalent on Instagram, common as commentary on funny videos of dachshunds running in water fountains, and used as a hashtag on posts of all social media varieties, but what does it mean to "live your best life?" The phrase must mean something different for everyone. For some people, living their best life might be becoming a parent, for others it might mean working towards and attaining a new pos

Almost anyone will tell you that unless you have money to blow, a vacation home is never a good idea. For the amount you pay for the home, factoring in how often you actually use it, you could easily buy into a hotel fairly regularly. Services like AirB&B have lessened this burden in recent years, but you have to be willing to accept that your vacation home wont always be available, especially in the highly desirable months for your location, and you will need to put in the

One of the things I do at my day job (Cloud Database Administrator) is troubleshoot issues with a Business Intelligence tool that is a GUI based, drag-and-drop interface. This type of tool is fabulous for business users without a ton of experience in direct SQL, but at the same time, can really get them into a pinch when they build a report that doesn't translate into a performant, well architected query. The same can be said for even the most seasoned Business Intelligenc

Check out our latest video where we talk tiki and make some plutonium! Click the image below to get started--Mahalos!

When I started building our home tiki bar, The Laki Fallout Shelter, one of the most daunting tasks was creating the trim to cover the chair rail seams and where the walls meet the ceiling. I wanted this trim to be routed wood with accents of bamboo, so I had a lot of work ahead of me--130 feet of work to be exact. This might just be your handy-dandy guide to doing it yourself! Let me preface this "how-to" with the caveat that before this project I had never used a saw, a r