Category: tech

Well done WIX

Context: I moved away recently from WIX.com for my hosting needs (this blog), but today WIX impressed me. Today I did some work for Modern Postnatal Recovery, I needed to create: a landing page with a form, a thank you page that allow also download a file a booking system for one-to-one session, synchronised with Google Calendar accept payments for the sessions To do all of this I worked 2 hours and a half. Read more...

AWS CUR format CSV and Parquet

AWS offers the CUR files to report on spending. The quality of the data is way better than the old Detailed Billing Files and it come in different formats. I use the CUR files to generate really good looking Dashboards with AWS QuickSight Today for the first time I checked CUR formatted as Parquet files, and there is a problem for anyone trying to reuse code, while the data seems to be very much the same as in the CSV, the headers are different. Read more...