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nathanwallace
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About nathanwallace
Building @ https://github.com/turbot
Twitter https://twitter.com/nathanwallace
Email nathan at turbot dot com
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Comment #45686670
A similar site I've enjoyed for >15 years (!!) is https://techmeme.com/ I also use it's sister aggregator site for political news every day - https://www.memeorandum.com/
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Comment #43900880
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers unde…
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Comment #42430510
Steampipe project lead here - thanks for the shout out & feedback multani! I agree with your comment about JSON columns being more difficult to work with at times. On balance, we'v…
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Comment #42133068
Beyond the Steampipe CLI (which has an embedded Postgres), you can use the steampipe plugins as native Postgres FDWs [1], SQLite extensions [2] or command line export tools [3]. We…
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Comment #42127273
Fair point. I guess that I'm disclosing that I lead the project and disclaiming the self-interest in posting? :)
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Comment #42127247
Steampipe is most commonly used for DevSecOps. It works with any BI tool for dashboards (it's just Postgres), but is really great when paired with Powerpipe [1] for security benchm…
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Comment #42127217
Thanks for leaning into Steampipe!
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Comment #42127208
thank you! We believe that SQL makes the simple stuff easy and the hard stuff doable :). Hopefully our repos & hubs have good enough examples to get you started most of the time!
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Comment #42127186
doh! thanks for the heads up :-(. Fixed to be https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins
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Comment #42125516
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers unde…
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Comment #41500676
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers unde…
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Comment #41235653
For runtime cost analysis, you could try Steampipe [1] with it's Powerpipe "thrifty" [2] mods. They run dozens of automatic checks across cloud providers for waste and cost saving …
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Comment #40353652
In addition to Postgres FDWs, Steampipe plugins are also available as a SQLite extension [1] or a CLI export tool [2] for lighter weight use cases. (Although a local Postgres has a…
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Comment #40348331
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source tool to live query 140+ services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, Kubernetes, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers unde…
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Comment #39692209
Steampipe does live queries against the API endpoint and stores results in an in-memory cache. You can modify the cache expiration to adjust that behavior across queries [1]. If yo…
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Comment #39691746
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source CLI to live query Google Sheets [2] and 140+ other services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wra…
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Comment #39473563
Readers may also enjoy Flowpipe [1], a cloud scripting engine to build workflow pipelines using HCL (like Terraform). It's as-code, self-hosted and open source. Our design choices …
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Comment #39180552
Perhaps give Flowpipe [1] a try? It provides "Pipelines for DevOps", including a library of AWS actions [2], that can be run on a schedule (e.g. daily) or a trigger (e.g. instance …
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Comment #39092660
Readers may find Steampipe's [1] AWS Thrifty Mod [2] useful. It will automatically scan multiple accounts and regions for 50 cost saving opportunities - many of which are looking f…
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Comment #38710653
Steampipe [1] is an open source project [2] that includes an embedded Postgres to instantly query cloud, code & more with SQL. This release expands our plugin ecosystem [3] to be a…
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Comment #38658046
Thanks for your kind words - so great to hear that :-). We're really excited about Flowpipe and think it makes "cloud scripting" really fun & easy through pipelines - please let us…
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Comment #38654521
Readers may enjoy Flowpipe [1], an open source cloud scripting engine we launched this week. It allows creation of pipelines in HCL to connect HTTP queries, run containers, execute…
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Show HN: Flowpipe – cloud scripting using HCL
Flowpipe [1] is a new open source [2] cloud scripting engine from Turbot [3]. Some of you may already use Steampipe [4], our open-source [5] tool to live query cloud APIs. We belie…
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Comment #37810896
Most of our team just use their text editor to do formatter via plugins. I also find this online SQL formatter to be useful - https://extendsclass.com/sql-formatter.html