Last week I attended The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America in Austin, Texas. It’s great to see a large group of open source enthusiasts come together to share ideas and and meet each other in person. (I gave a talk there, too.) A question I hard a few times and was asked was, […]
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Searching for the Right Words: Bringing NLP to Apache Solr through ONNX and OpenNLP
I am very excited to be presenting at this year’s Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America! My presentation titled Searching for the Right Words: Bringing NLP to Apache Solr through ONNX and OpenNLP will talk about the new ONNX capabilities that have been introduced into Apache OpenNLP and how to utilize the functionality from […]
Apache OpenNLP and ONNX Models
I got started using the Apache OpenNLP project some time around 2009. I had a large amount of unstructured text that I wanted to process and I didn’t know how. As a Java programmer, Apache OpenNLP provided the tools I needed to make that large amount of text usable. Back then, the NLP options available were […]
Load Testing with Apache JMeter, InfluxDB, and Grafana
Apache JMeter is a great tool for load testing APIs. You can define your API requests, run your tests, and measure throughput and other metrics. Admittedly, I don’t find it to be most intuitive tool to get started with but once you get the hang of it makes sense and you start to understand why […]
“Let’s Build Something!” with Mike Chambers
I was recently invited to be a guest on Mike Chambers‘ (an AWS Hero) show! On this episode Mike wired together the final pieces to make his machine learning model in SageMaker available through API Gateway endpoint and a static website in S3. He did the coding live and it worked great! The small web […]
S3 Bucket Policy for VPC Flow Logs
If you are making a CloudFormation template and including an S3 bucket for logs you are probably setting a bucket policy. Here’s a hard to find problem. Let’s say you are configuring VPC flog logs and CloudTrail logs to go to the same logs bucket. Makes sense right? So to make that happen you make […]
Mountaineer Emerging Technologies Group
I would like to invite everyone interested in emerging technologies such as AI/ML, Kubernetes and containers, cloud, NLP, and others to join the Mountaineer Emerging Technologies Group meetup. This group was created primarily for technology professionals in the northern WV area it is open to anyone. If you are interested in presenting a topic pleas get in […]
AWS Config Conformance Packs: When TRUE is not true
In this post I want to share a problem I encountered with an AWS Config Conformance Pack in hopes it can help someone else some time. The Conformance Packs are sets of AWS Config rules to help you meet compliance with various regulations. They are available on GitHub. You can clone that repository and use […]
Factory Restoring the AWS DeepRacer
In a previous post I wrote about how to do a factory restore on the AWS DeepLens camera. Today we’re going to do the AWS DeepRacer! Luckily, the process is really the same. You just want to download the DeepRacer files instead of the DeepLens files. You can get the files from the AWS guide. […]
Free AWS Office Hours
Today I am introducing AWS “Office Hours.” Looking back at the past 10 years there have been lots of people who had an impact on me. Some of them probably have no idea but I don’t think I would have the experience today if it weren’t for their help and assistance over the years. Finding […]