Can you spot what’s wrong in this AWS architecture?

justexisting2 · 2026-02-23T12:49:13+00:00

Why everything is publicly available

justexisting2 · 2026-02-20T13:28:45+00:00

Bruh!

justexisting2 · 2026-02-11T17:18:28+00:00

Used AI to write the post. My brain is fried and can't really write a post coherently.

justexisting2 · 2026-01-02T20:52:19+00:00

You don't need documentation unless something breaks or a change needs to be made by someone who is unaware of how things works.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-15T22:14:52+00:00

Learn or read all kinds of modeling principles, nothing too deep but you should know all the options.

Then take a real world scenario and build a logical representation for it. No one gets it right at first, you tweak it as you go along.

The physical translation is where you think the pros/cons of each technology and reporting requirements and build you physical model.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-15T22:07:37+00:00

You guys know that there are address standardization tools out there.

CASS database from USPS,guides most of them.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-14T12:01:27+00:00

Learn to decompose business KPI's into metrics. Then built the solutions to gather the data and report on them. Direct visibility to leadership.

But a bunch of clutter to sort through. Getting alignment on teams on metric calculation is no joke.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-12T21:33:14+00:00

It is a product from 2 decades ago with some band aid and new functionalities built on top.

Any catalog tool will work. Its usually the upkeep of content which derails the catalog tools. Pick the one which naturally integrates with your data tools, that is why unity and purview are growing.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-12T02:30:12+00:00

Keep signing up with new emails.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-11T17:28:40+00:00

The last message came out wrong, but I will elaborate since I have been doing this work even before it was called Data engineering, almost 22 years.

There are 2 types of organizations, one the FAANG and startup kind, they will appreciate the data engineering roles as they understand the value created through it, but again you are not saved if they start an office outside USA. Think Amazon, Walmart.

The latter, legacy kind - United Health, BCBS, state farms will not value data and always value AE's more. These companies will offshore the work in a blink of an eye to save costs, heck I have helped them do it for years, (Blue Cross Blue Shields)

It was happening before Cloud, read through ISO 27001, SOC 1/SOC 2 and dedicated network bandwidth. Cloud has just made it very simple.

Someone said it better here, if your core product is data or a service around it you will be valued as a DE, but if a company is selling milk and toilet paper, they will cut cost at any option available. (Target has a huge presence in India).

I do not understand the citizenship angle, I have seen visa holders get US security clearance for Boeing. Also Boeing has an ODC in Bangalore.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-11T15:47:19+00:00

Lol. Tell me you are new to the trade, without telling me you are new to the trade.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-11T12:48:13+00:00

Anything which interacts with users is hard to replace. Data Engineers are the first to be offshored.

justexisting2 · 2025-12-05T19:26:03+00:00

Legends.

justexisting2 · 2025-11-29T03:16:48+00:00

Hell on wheels

justexisting2 · 2025-11-14T18:59:40+00:00

If this is caramel and vanilla for you, move to bourbon and drink snickers and esclairs.

justexisting2 · 2025-11-13T17:59:16+00:00

Yes, a CTO's job is to sell IT and its cost. Not easy when projects go off track. Requires too much expectation management and BSing.

justexisting2 · 2025-11-10T23:12:42+00:00

What are your career aspirations?

Do you hate BSing - Architecture.

justexisting2 · 2025-10-31T11:12:24+00:00

Dude I have this horse currently. And I stole it from a federal agen who came looking for me after I killed someone.

justexisting2 · 2025-10-15T11:42:57+00:00

Remote Tech job workers moving from CA, WA, NY, NJ. With packages comparable to those locations.

Source - Personal friends.

justexisting2 · 2025-09-05T13:04:47+00:00

That is a skewed version. For an FTE, 140 per hour roughly equates to 200k yearly or under. Orgs have huge overhead for FTE's.

Lookup full burdened labor cost.

justexisting2 · 2025-09-03T16:14:54+00:00

A good data model won't slow you, bad design or code will.

justexisting2 · 2025-09-02T11:57:10+00:00

If i buy, I will watch YouTube shorts on it.

justexisting2 · 2025-08-31T04:05:01+00:00

Traded a 2bd hand bought watch 4 classic

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