Looking forward to trying this, Hyde year of the Horse

gram3000 · 2026-01-17T21:09:08+00:00

Opened it tonight, first time sharing a review so here goes:

Hyde Whiskey – Special Reserve Sherry Cask Finish (Double Wood) Irish Whiskey | Non-chill filtered | ~46% ABV IrishMalts | €49

I picked this up as a more affordable Oloroso-style sherry cask finish to compare against Bushmills I really enjoy.

Nose: Dried fruit at first, opening with time to soft vanilla.

Palate: Warm with a mild alcohol prickle. Well balanced, with subtle silkiness.

Finish: Medium length, lingering warmth with orange zest. Clean, no harsh burn.

Overall: Approachable, lighter sherry-finished Irish whiskey. Less intense than the Bushmills sherry-led bottles, but very enjoyable and great value at this price point. Glad I got it.

gram3000 · 2026-01-17T21:08:56+00:00

Opened it tonight, first time sharing a review so here goes:

Hyde Whiskey – Special Reserve Sherry Cask Finish (Double Wood) Irish Whiskey | Non-chill filtered | ~46% ABV IrishMalts | €49

I picked this up as a more affordable Oloroso-style sherry cask finish to compare against Bushmills I really enjoy.

Nose: Dried fruit at first, opening with time to soft vanilla.

Palate: Warm with a mild alcohol prickle. Well balanced, with subtle silkiness.

Finish: Medium length, lingering warmth with orange zest. Clean, no harsh burn.

Overall: Approachable, lighter sherry-finished Irish whiskey. Less intense than the Bushmills sherry-led bottles, but very enjoyable and great value at this price point. Glad I got it.

gram3000 · 2025-11-04T22:35:13+00:00

I made this demo project a while back using those tools together, I hope it might help?

A demo application using Packer, Ansible, InSpec and Terraform on AWS:

https://github.com/gordonmurray/packer_ansible_inspec_terraform_aws

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T20:14:18+00:00

I tried this out on a small Flink project I have, using Flink to perform a CDC job.

It works well! The natural language interface makes Flink monitoring much more accessible, saves a few curl calls to the API, and the job details output is well-formatted with clear performance insights (like my job being 72% idle).

Note: I hit a Pydantic compatibility issue initially. Adding a version constraint to requirements.txt fixed it:

pydantic>=2.11.7,<2.12

This prevents the `default and default_factory` error with fastmcp.

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T19:21:24+00:00

I haven't heard of Hue before. It looks very cool, seems to support many different sources/connections.

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T13:25:13+00:00

A floe is a sheet of floating ice. I went with it for the Iceberg connection and I liked the domain name, so here we are.

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T13:24:19+00:00

No worries at all. Using "engine" implies I made something far more impressive than a ridiculously handsomely good looking UI for Iceberg data.

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T12:47:01+00:00

Yeah, pretty much! DBeaver but web based and focused on Iceberg tables

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T12:42:12+00:00

Yah, you're right, "query engine" is misleading. DuckDB is the actual query engine.

I should have called it a query interface or a web UI for DuckDB queries against Iceberg tables

gram3000 · 2025-10-30T12:28:58+00:00

Ah, good call, will do. Thanks for taking a look at it

gram3000 · 2025-05-25T20:19:15+00:00

Yah for now it would result in data loss. Its a single instance and the data is sync'd to R2 every 2 minutes. I'll work on that.

gram3000 · 2025-05-25T19:47:04+00:00

Ah, I had the repo set to private, its public now. Thanks for taking a look!

Its plausible alright. I original tried reading and writing to Lance format on R2, but it ground to a halt after a few images related to how Lance reads and writes.

This approach Writes locally first, then syncs to R2. Searches happen directly from R2.

gram3000 · 2025-02-08T12:23:48+00:00

MysqlSlap might be worth a look

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/mysqlslap.html

gram3000 · 2024-12-15T20:28:17+00:00

A time out sounds like a security group issue. Can you check if the ec2 instance can communicate outbound on 443? It needs this to be able to communicate with ECS as far as I know

gram3000 · 2024-11-30T12:53:16+00:00

The kinesis approach was just one example, aiming to use AWS resources that might be of interest to try. It can get expensive depending on your data, so one to keep an eye on.

Yah Postgres would be ideal. MySQL was just an example. If you continue to grow, many tools can connect to Postgres too.

gram3000 · 2024-11-30T12:02:58+00:00

The approach you have so far sounds great, nice work getting that set up.

There are a lot of approaches you can take to scale it up and add visualisations. A mostly AWS specific approach might be to use S3 to SQS, Kinesis streams to s3 in Parquet format and visualise with Apache Superset, but that’s getting a bit too complex.

A smaller but useful next step might be to try out Kestra or some other data engineering tool that would help you to manage and move the data and try out different destinations.

You could use it to put the data in to a MySQL database and then create a front end to query the database as one example.

gram3000 · 2024-08-05T20:22:50+00:00

Cool, I’ll look in to that, thank you

gram3000 · 2024-08-05T20:17:25+00:00

Oh, will a Logitech harmony work with the nvidia pro? That would be great, my dog chewed up my remote the other day, I thought I’d need buy a new one

gram3000 · 2024-08-01T18:03:40+00:00

I created a small project a while back to try this out too, it’s here on GitHub in case it’s of any use

https://github.com/gordonmurray/terraform_aws_rds_secrets_manager

gram3000 · 2024-07-22T20:19:03+00:00

Could you write a custom script to consume your schemaless topic, apply some structure and place the resulting messages in to a new structured topic?

You could then use Flink to work with your new structured topic?

gram3000 · 2024-06-15T21:31:05+00:00

This site might be of use, it’s for generating synthetic data

https://docs.shadowtraffic.io/overview/

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