21. September 2022
A Tale From Microservice Hell
Ages ago I was working as a contractor on a data engineering team, working on a knowledge graph platform that was built on a service architecture.
17. July 2022
Running a shell command for each entry in a PCollection
I was preparing for something I needed to do at work with beam, namely running a shell command for something that isn’t possible to run natively in the beam runtime, and did not find much documentation for it. It’s relatively straight-forward but I have not “blogged” in a while so here goes.
22. May 2022
Transferring Musical Likes Between Services
After using spotify for many years, I decided to try switching my music service a few months ago. I was finding that any time I put on shuffle, spotify would eventually direct me back to funk and soul music from the seventies. I generally love those styles of music, but for a service that is supposed to provide discovery, it wasn’t really working for me.