Balancing Organizational Controls and Technical Controls in Data

Technical Controls - The security controls (i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an information system that are primarily implemented and executed by the information system through mechanisms contained in the hardware, software, or firmware components of the system. Organizational Controls - The security controls (i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an information system that primarily are implemented … Continue reading Balancing Organizational Controls and Technical Controls in Data →

TUgis Wrap-Up

Earlier this month, I attended TUgis, Maryland’s annual GIS conference. It was my first time attending since I gave the keynote address in 2017. That was due primarily to the conference being moved to early August - a reasonable adjustment due to the fact that the venue is always Towson University and the new timeframe … Continue reading TUgis Wrap-Up →

A Few Updates to pg_webhooks

At the time of my last post, there were a few outstanding issues that I wanted to address in the code of pg_webhooks. I've addressed three of them this week. There wasn't actually a route to unsubscribe from a channel, so I added that shortly after the initial release. Another key shortcoming was that the … Continue reading A Few Updates to pg_webhooks →

A Simple Webhook Interface for PostgreSQL NOTIFY

PostgreSQL's NOTIFY/LISTEN method for subscribing to events from a database is a subject I return to periodically. I've touched on it in one form or another over several years. My latest run at it involves building a Node Express application that will allow external systems to subscribe to webhooks that are fired by NOTIFY statements … Continue reading A Simple Webhook Interface for PostgreSQL NOTIFY →

Visiting MAUI

It's been a few months since my last post, which is not necessarily what I intended, but I took some time off at the beginning of the year before jumping into new ventures. Since then, I've been quite engaged coming up to speed with a new team and getting going on some data architecture challenges. … Continue reading Visiting MAUI →

New Directions

Since the first of the year, I've been on my own. After considering a number of really compelling job offers, I decided to start my own company and take a contract position with company doing work that's meaningful to me (more on that in the future). I'm also picking back up with some GIS work … Continue reading New Directions →

Stripe API Pagination in FME

I few weeks ago, I described an integration I built to pull data from the Stripe via its API and load it into BigQuery. There were two main problems with this approach: First, it was incredibly hacky - a Wile E. Coyote approach to the problem involving cron jobs and EC2 instances and GCS uploads … Continue reading Stripe API Pagination in FME →

Mission Accomplished

Today was my last day at Fulcrum. Two days before Thanksgiving, I was informed that my position was being eliminated as of December 31, 2022. I start the new year on severance. The past five weeks have been a mixture of emotions that can be summed up as "strange." The first week or so was … Continue reading Mission Accomplished →

Organizational Muscle Memory

I've had plenty of opportunity to tell my "story" lately. After my initial post that my current position is ending, there has been a pleasantly surprising amount of interest and activity. Others have told me that I shouldn't be surprised, but I feel like I've been fairly heads-down the past six years so it was … Continue reading Organizational Muscle Memory →

Salesforce to Jira: Using FME for Business Automation

I mentioned in my previous post that, at my current organization, we had made good use of FME in processing non-spatial business data. In this post, I'll provide an example of that. One of the functions in my department is professional services. Our professional services team, like similar teams in many product companies, doesn't capture … Continue reading Salesforce to Jira: Using FME for Business Automation →