Even if you offload operating Kubernetes to a managed Kubernetes service such as EKS, GKE or AKS, deploying and operatin

Benchmarks aren’t something that overly excite me, but give the people what the people want, right? So here goes the obligatory screenshots of numbers that may or may not mean much. If you would like to see a comparison between my 2018 15' MacBook Pro and the Pro M1, you can check it out on Geekbench. Long story short, every score is pretty much either double or more on the Pro M1.,All that serverless and containers thing is nice. If you are starting a new business and building everything from scratch, by all means go ahead and deploy your applications using containers and orchestrate them using Kubernetes if you have the bandwidth (or may be not, read on) and the technical skills to configure and operate Kubernetes as well as deploy applications on Kubernetes.,The user’s Cognito ID can be extracted from the $context.authorizer.cliams.sub element (line 283). But, as you can see, this is inserting additional data for DynamoDB that wasn’t part of the original HTTP request’s JSON, as well as showing how to get to the Cognito data.,I thought money would accelerate our path towards finding our business model, but it only created a distraction, and ultimately led us to waste money on things we didn’t need to even think about.,Data Science is a very new field and is not very well defined at the moment. There are discrepancies from company to company about what a Data Scientist is, hence many feel as though the path they’ve taken to end up where they are has been non-linear. You aren’t the first and will not be the last, but you should definitely stand on the shoulders of one that has gone before you.,The rest of the elements are just a straight mapping from the incoming JSON to the value for the DynamoDB attribute. Note that of course you can have different names for the DynamoDB attributes vs. the JSON attributes, such as sensor_name gets stored as Sensor in DynamoDB.,We’ve already covered how to clean up packages you’ve pip installed — here are instructions for removing conda installed packages. If you’ve been using the conda package manager, you can free up space by removing unused packages and caches using this code:,Transitioning careers is much more difficult and scary than changing employers. However, I believe these precursors are what helped me in my transition phase and can be of great benefit for anyone trying to transition into Data Science.,4.5 years ago my startup (Panda Training, which back then was a matchmaking platform for trainers offering training and companies that needed training) raised €200.000 from various funding sources. We ended up going from Helsinki to New York that summer after an initial “killer” run at local sales in the spring with a product that “was supposed to be ready by the time we arrived to NYC.”,We received the call we’d been waiting for. An angel investor was ready to make us an offer. After some back and forth, despite it being a “biggish” amount of money, we said no. The main reason for this is because we were still figuring out what we do and knew that it would be way too easy to completely waste the money.,The TimeUTC element (line 284) is a string (in DynamoDB) and the incoming JSON already has it as standard ISO format so it can just be set directly like this. It is used as the Sort Key in this table, so having it in ISO format makes it properly sortable.,A funny trend I’ve noticed from the podcast I listen to (Learn more about these in How I stay up to date with Data Science) is that many people do not feel as though they’ve taken a definitive path into Data Science and that they’ve almost stumbled their way here. This makes absolute sense!,We’ve already covered how to clean up packages you’ve pip installed — here are instructions for removing conda installed packages. If you’ve been using the conda package manager, you can free up space by removing unused packages and caches using this code:,A VTL foreach loop (line 279) is used to iterate over the incoming list of events, and map each one to a PutRequest. Note that the incoming events are just a simple JSON array/list of single level of attributes, but if they had nested elements, you’d just use this same dot syntax to traverse deeper as needed.,What led us to such an unusual conclusion? Four and a half years ago my team and I had a sobering experience raising and unreasonably spending €200,000 that led to both insights and a reality check.