Rob Marano robmarano

Easily Switch Accounts in AWS

When working with multiple AWS accounts, it can be a pain to keep signing out and signing back in. I work with a number of accounts, my own, customer accts, burner accts, etc. It was a pain to keep logging in and out of the AWS Console. Thankfully the AWS Console has a "Role Switcher" that lets you quickly switch between accounts built-in. It does this by assuming a role from another account. Here's how to set that up...

Ubuntu 16.04 Developer Tools Installation

First things first !

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Standard Developer Tools

sudo apt-get install build-essential git

Standalone Spark 2.0.0 with s3

###Tested with:

Spark 2.0.0 pre-built for Hadoop 2.7
Mac OS X 10.11
Python 3.5.2

Goal

Use s3 within pyspark with minimal hassle.

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

	# we need some fixes from 14.10
	sudo add-apt-repository --enable-source ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-4-3
	# fetch this repository
	sudo apt-get update
	# update your libreoffice installation
	sudo apt-get install libreoffice
	# get all build dependencies for libreoffice
	sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice
	# that strangely enough doesn't come with the above
	sudo apt-get install gcj-jdk python-dev

	app.filter('nfcurrency', [ '$filter', '$locale', function ($filter, $locale) {
	var currency = $filter('currency'), formats = $locale.NUMBER_FORMATS;
	return function (amount, symbol) {
	var value = currency(amount, symbol);
	return value.replace(new RegExp('\\' + formats.DECIMAL_SEP + '\\d{2}'), '')
	}
	}]);

	[Unit]
	Description=Cassandra
	After=network.target

	[Service]
	Type=forking
	PIDFile=/var/lib/cassandra/cassandra.pid
	User=cassandra
	Group=cassandra
	ExecStart=/usr/bin/cassandra -p /var/lib/cassandra/cassandra.pid

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	## @file rgb-colored-echo.sh
	## @author Amber Jain
	## @section DESCRIPTION A bash pretty print script which provides red/green/blue colored echo functions
	## @section LICENSE ISC


	#################
	# Documentation #

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# A quickndirty bash-utility to generate REST-documentation from sourcecode comments.
	# (initially aimed at php-files, but js should also work)
	# Basically its a c-style comment -> markdown -> html converter
	# Dependancies:
	# - awk
	# - sed
	# - bash
	# - php

	import sys
	import time
	import random
	import signal
	import multiprocessing

	processes = []

	def launch_process(number, kill_queue, child_connection):