Harlow Ward

Processing Kinesis Streams w/ AWS Lambda and Golang

Using Kinesis Streams as a trigger for AWS Lambda has made it easier than ever to process real-time event data. The days of managing servers, persisting checkpoints, and other complexities associated with using the Kinesis Client Library…

Tracing gRPC calls in Golang with Google Stackdriver

Ruby based ETL pipeline with Iron.io and Redshift

As the data requirements of our Business Intelligence team grow we’ve been leveraging Iron.io’s IronWorker as our go-to platform for scheduling and running our Ruby based ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) worker pipeline.

Interservice communication with Redis and Sidekiq remote workers

As our infrastructure continues to grow (and we continue to extract core services) we’re consistently having to sync data between applications.

One of the most common mistakes we see when a…