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The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Awry
In today's installment of, let's macro the heck out of this SaaS system, things didn't go entirely as I had planned.
Whitney Wilger
Mar 312 min read
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Holy Macros...
Holy macros is right. dbt macros that is.
Whitney Wilger
Mar 263 min read
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Dude, bangin' tuples...
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
Whitney Wilger
Mar 242 min read
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Forty-Four - 44
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...
Whitney Wilger
Aug 14, 20242 min read
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What If?
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...
Whitney Wilger
Aug 29, 20232 min read
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AWS Glue: When Parquet Field Types are Misidentified and How to Recover
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
Whitney Wilger
Jul 14, 20225 min read
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AWS Glue: Gotchas and Other Things We Learned Along the Way
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!
Whitney Wilger
Apr 10, 20225 min read
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Life: I Long for the Sea
I long for the sea. Not like, "Oh, I want to go to the beach." It's all I can think about.
Whitney Wilger
May 19, 20212 min read
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AWS Glue: The Importance of Parallel Processing
Today Whit dabbles in AWS Glue. If you recall from our last blog, my team is working on creating a data lake
Whitney Wilger
May 18, 20213 min read
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Volkswagens: What I didn't know when I bought Bertha, my 1965 VW Bus
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
Whitney Wilger
May 12, 20216 min read
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AWS: What Does This Error Mean?!
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
Whitney Wilger
May 8, 20214 min read
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What Is It That I Do Again?
Navigating your way through the IT world can be confusing, especially when you don't have the formal degree with a specialty that you...
Whitney Wilger
Jul 22, 20184 min read
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Perfection, Validation, and Panic
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...
Whitney Wilger
Jul 11, 20184 min read
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Living Your Best Life: What does that mean anyway?
"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...
Whitney Wilger
Jul 8, 20182 min read
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Big Dreams: The Quest for a Vacation Home
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...
Whitney Wilger
Jul 7, 20183 min read
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Problem Solving in the BI Age: Digital Treasure in the Form of Data
One of the things I do at my day job (Cloud Database Administrator) is troubleshoot issues with a Business Intelligence tool that is a...
Whitney Wilger
Jul 7, 20183 min read
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The Laki Fallout Shelter, Episode 1!
Check out our latest video where we talk tiki and make some plutonium! Click the image below to get started--Mahalos!
Whitney Wilger
Jul 6, 20181 min read
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Routing Trim For A Tiki Bar
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...
Whitney Wilger
Jul 5, 20183 min read
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