How to retrieve credentials stored in AWS Secrets Manager from AWS Lambda running in VPC

AWS Secrets Manager is a secrets management service that enables you to store credentials and retrieve it dynamically when you need them. It helps protect access to your applications and services. With AWS Secret Manager you can - Programmatically retrieve encrypted secret values at runtimeStore different types of secretsEncrypt secret dataAutomate secret's rotation When you … Continue reading How to retrieve credentials stored in AWS Secrets Manager from AWS Lambda running in VPC

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Sequential counter with groupby – Pandas DataFrame

Pandas DataFrame is a 2-dimensional tabular data structure with labeled axes. For this blog, we have a table "person" in database containing name, age and city column. As dml transactions are performed on this table, the new image of the record along with the dml operation type is captured and stored in json file. The … Continue reading Sequential counter with groupby – Pandas DataFrame

Reading Parquet files with AWS Lambda

I had a use case to read data (few columns) from parquet file stored in S3, and write to DynamoDB table, every time a file was uploaded. Thinking to use AWS Lambda, I was looking at options of how to read parquet files within lambda until I stumbled upon AWS Data Wrangler. From the document … Continue reading Reading Parquet files with AWS Lambda

Merge json files using Pandas

Quick demo for merging multiple json files using Pandas - import pandas as pd import glob import json file_list = glob.glob("*.json") >>> file_list ['b.json', 'c.json', 'a.json'] Use enumerate to assign counter to files. allFilesDict = {v:k for v, k in enumerate(file_list, 1)} >>> allFilesDict {1: 'b.json', 2: 'c.json', 3: 'a.json'} Append the data into list … Continue reading Merge json files using Pandas

Pandas – ValueError: If using all scalar values, you must pass an index

Reading json file using Pandas read_json can fail with "ValueError: If using all scalar values, you must pass an index". Let see with an example - cat a.json { "creator": "CaptainAmerica", "last_modifier": "NickFury", "title": "Captain America: The First Avenger", "view_count": 12000 } >>> import pandas as pd >>> import glob >>> for f in glob.glob('*.json'): … Continue reading Pandas – ValueError: If using all scalar values, you must pass an index

Python – sort() vs sorted(list)

You can compare list using sort() or sorted(list), but be careful with sort() - >>> c = [('d',4), ('c',3), ('a',1), ('b', 2)] >>> a = [('a',1), ('b', 2), ('c',3), ('d',4)] >>> a.sort() == c.sort() True >>> >>> a = [('a',1), ('b', 2), ('c',3), ('d',4)] >>> b = [('b',2), ('c', 3), ('a',1)] >>> >>> a.sort() == … Continue reading Python – sort() vs sorted(list)

Python – str.maketrans()

Working on a Python code, I had a requirement for removing the single/double quotes and open/close brackets from the string of below format -- >>> text = """with summary as (select ' ... 'p.col1,p.col2,p.col3, ROW_NUMBER() ' ... 'OVER(PARTITION BY p.col1,p.col3 ORDER BY ' ... 'p.col2) AS rk from (select * from (select ' ... 'col2, … Continue reading Python – str.maketrans()

namedtuple to JSON – Python

In pgdb - PostgreSQL DB API, the cursor which is used to manage the context of a fetch operation returns list of named tuples. These named tuples contain field names same as the column names of the database query. An example of a row from the list of named tuples - Row(log_time=datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 20, 5, … Continue reading namedtuple to JSON – Python