CloudBeaver on ECS: Why Password Authentication Fails Intermittently


The CloudBeaver ECS tasks started crash-looping yesterday. We spent a few hours debugging an intermittent "password authentication failed" error in CloudBeaver running on ECS with an RDS PostgreSQL backend. The root cause turned out to be an undocumented interaction between CloudBeaver's config parser and special characters in auto-generated passwords. Here's the full investigation. The Symptom … Continue reading CloudBeaver on ECS: Why Password Authentication Fails Intermittently →

Scratching My Own Itch: Turning Apple Health Data Into Insights


For a long time, I thought I was doing everything right. I tracked everything — workouts, calories, sleep, water intake, even alcohol consumption and reading habits. Like many people, I relied on Apple Health to store all my data. The problem wasn’t collecting the data. It was understanding it. The Problem With Tracking Everything I … Continue reading Scratching My Own Itch: Turning Apple Health Data Into Insights →

Understanding how third-party query engines integrate with Lake Formation


Integrating with AWS Lake Formation allows third-party services to securely access data stored in Amazon S3–based data lakes. Over the past few days, I’ve gained several valuable insights from hands-on experience that I’d like to share. I will walk you through the end-to-end workflow illustrated above and highlight some key lessons and challenges encountered along … Continue reading Understanding how third-party query engines integrate with Lake Formation →