As a consultant and advisor to many firms running on or investigating AWS, I find SSH host and key management to be a constant struggle. From IAM credentials to default OS logins, it’s easy to lose time with constant…
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Automating Oracle Database deployment with Amazon Web Services, fabric, and boto – SEMOP Talk, Feb 12, 2013
I’ll be giving a talk tonight on automated Oracle database deployment at the SouthEast Michigan Oracle Professionals (SEMOP) Meetup Group. While I’ll be following up on this post later, I wanted to share the slides and Github repository for participants to follow…
Tagged with: automated deployment, aws, boto, devops, ec2, fabric, oracle
Posted in Consulting, Programming
Posted in Consulting, Programming
Git Repository for Congressional Bill Statistics
After a nice twitter conversation this morning, I finally got the impetus to release the source for my Congressional Bill Statistics data. You can find the source at this Github repository. I haven’t taken the time to review…
Connecting R to an Oracle database with RJDBC
In many circumstances, you might want to connect R directly to a database to store and retrieve data. If the source database is an Oracle database, you have a number of options: ROracle RODBC RJDBC Using ROracle should theoretically…
Retrieving the VIX term structure in R
Much of my time lately has gone into analyzing and trading products in the volatility complex. As a result, I regularly watch the VIX term structure for continuations or deviations from trend. To make analysis simpler, I’ve written some…
