Maurice Brg

AWS-Blog: Introduction to SSO with the IAM Identity Center and Entra ID

IAM Identity Center, formerly AWS SSO, is often used as an access management solution in front of one or more AWS accounts. More often than not, its purpose is to grant access to AWS accounts within an AWS organization. Today we’ll shed some light on the basic concepts and explain how this solution can be integrated with Azure AD which has recently been renamed to Entra ID to provide Single-Sign-On to your AWS environment.

AWS-Blog: Using undocumented AWS APIs with Python

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2024/04/using-undocumented-aws-apis-with-python.html

AWS-Blog: Adding Cognito Authentication to our Serverless Dash App

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2024/04/adding-cognito-authentication-to-our-serverless-dash-app.html

AWS-Blog: Build a Serverless S3 Explorer with Dash (alpha)

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2024/04/build-a-serverless-s3-explorer-with-dash.html

Replacing the Battery on a HP Spectre x360

A notebook was suffering from a dead battery. Since the warranty expired, I decided to fix it myself. Here’s what happened (hint: nothing catches on fire).

AWS-Blog: Adding Basic Authentication to the Serverless Dash App

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2024/03/adding-basic-authentication-to-the-serverless-dash-app.html

Giving my old Chromebook a second life with Fedora

I explain how I turned my end-of-life 7 year old Chromebook into a useful notebook by removing some screws and installing Fedora Linux.

AWS-Blog: Deploying a Serverless Dash App with AWS SAM and Lambda

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2024/03/deploying-a-serverless-dash-app-with-aws-sam-and-lambda.html

AWS-Blog: Understanding Iterations in Ray RLlib

I published a new blog post on the tecRacer AWS Blog: https://www.tecracer.com/blog/2024/02/understanding-iterations-in-ray-rllib.html

Code Optimization: Filtering dataframes using exact matches in multiple columns

Filtering medium to large amounts of data to extract a relevant subset is a very common task in any data related project. Often we do this on the basis of pandas dataframes. In this post I want to compare some filtering options for exact matches across multiple columns. The idea is pretty simple. We have a dataframe with multiple columns and rows as well as a list of conditions by which we want to extract data from it....