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Caddy: HTTPS made easy!
Hosting on HTTPS is hard. First off you have to get your domain, then pay some annoying security giant a large amount of money for a SSL certificate that expires in 1 year (and you have to pay them again), then you have to configure your website to use the...
How to Install MongoDB with AWS EC2
Here at OptimalBI, we’ve recently switched from using DynamoDB to MongoDB. However, we still use Amazon’s EC2 service to manage our servers. Because MongoDB isn’t an Amazon Web Service like DynamoDB is, installing Mongo on one of these servers isn’t the most obvious...
App Config on AWS: Files, and DynamoDB
When we deploy and run applications on AWS (or anywhere really) most times we need to configure that application so that it can find the other services and applications it needs to run correctly. Today I will look at a the simple way of using config files deployed to...
Qlik Basics: Filters
Once you get going with Qlik Sense you will quickly end up with many visualizations across multiple pages, displaying connected data. To avoid redundant effort for the user, Qlik has implemented persistent filters. This means when you apply a filter anywhere in your...
Why you should look into Attunity Compose
Attunity has been a successful player in data space for almost 20 years and well-known for its data replication solution Attunity Replicate, in 2016 brought to the market a data warehouse automation platform Attunity Compose. Data warehouse automation is a relatively...
Storing Time Series with InfluxDB
Capturing and storing data of one thing changing over time is called time series data. When we capture time series data we are more interested in trends and change than the current state of a 'thing'. Storing and querying this type of data can present...
Connecting OneLogin to WordPress Groups
When it comes to administration, you don't want to be doing a single task multiple times, and in the same vein, you don't want to be splitting tasks across multiple sites or platforms. This has been a main concern of mine for a while now, but I have finally found a...
Qlik Basics: Stories
There are two major components when it comes to Qlik; Finding insights, and sharing insights. In this Qlik Basics blog, we I will talk about the latter and how easy it is with Qlik Sense Enterprise. For sharing insights, Qlik has stories. Stories allow users to...
A 13 year old genius, melanoma detection and an #allmalepanel
What do a 13 year old genius, melanoma detection and an #allmalepanel have in common?? - they all featured at the IBM Watson Summit, where I spent a sunny mid-winter afternoon this week. A well curated event that featured good food, a large and diverse crowd, varied...
One more blog about Agile: from a Developer Point of View
My Agile story started reasonably recently, less than two years ago. I joined OptimalBI as a Data Vault developer. They were already using Agile and the Data Vault development process is nicely aligned with an Agile methodology, so my transformation into Agile...