tacedata management inc. on TACE Data

aws cost management — right-sizing a personal estate

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A billing audit of the tacedata.ca AWS account that found $59/month in infrastructure charges on a site that was supposed to cost nearly nothing — and reduced it to $3.63/month.

aws cost management: stage 1: time to cancel that gym membership you don't use

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A billing audit of the tacedata.ca AWS account — what was accumulating, what was surprising, and how infrastructure that was supposed to cost nothing ended up at $59/month.

portfolio

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Projects, stages, posts, and live work — all in one place.

analytics: stage 1: what the cloudfront free plan doesn't tell you

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Setting up server-side traffic analytics for tacedata.ca — and hitting a hard wall in the CloudFront Free pricing plan that blocks all logging features.

traffic analytics — cloudfront logs and athena

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Attempting server-side traffic analytics for tacedata.ca using CloudFront access logs and AWS Athena — and what the CloudFront Free pricing plan actually allows.

economic dashboard series: stage 6 — threshold alerting

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000

sixth post in the series: adding threshold detection and SNS email alerts so meaningful indicator crossings surface without having to check the dashboard.

economic dashboard series: stage 5 — historical storage

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:00:00 +0000

fifth post in the series: adding a DynamoDB snapshot store so the dashboard can display 3-month and 6-month sparklines alongside the existing 30-day view.

site: scheduled rebuild — publishing future-dated posts automatically

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Adding a daily GitHub Actions cron workflow so future-dated Hugo posts go live on their scheduled date without a manual push.

economic dashboard series: stage 4 — data source upgrades

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

fourth post in the series: replacing ETF proxies with direct data sources, investigating free alternatives, and fixing a BoC query bug hiding three months of bond yield data.

economic dashboard series: stage 3 — server-side data fetching

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0000

third post in the series: moving all data fetching out of the browser and into AWS Lambda.

economic dashboard series: stage 2 — hugo integration

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:00:00 +0000

second post in the series: giving the dashboard a proper home on tacedata.ca and the decisions that went into it.

economic dashboard series: post 1 - what and why

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

first post in a series documenting the build-out of a Canadian economic indicators dashboard.

security - stage 2 - internet cache and the wayback machine

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Cleaning git history removes data from your repo — but not from search engines, the Wayback Machine, or GitHub’s cache. Here is what to check.

security - stage 1 - cleaning sensitive data out of git history

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:00:00 +0000

After a security review flagged AWS identifiers committed to a public repo, we used git-filter-repo to scrub them from all 46 commits — including file content and commit messages.

economic indicators dashboard

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Canadian mortgage rate decision aid — eight economic indicators translated into plain-English signals.

security remediation — what we got wrong

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A post-launch security review of tacedata.ca uncovered sensitive AWS identifiers committed to a public repository. This is a full account of what was exposed, how it was found, and what it took to fix it.

site: stage 6: site monitoring with aws cloudwatch

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:00:00 +0000

Setting up availability monitoring for tacedata.ca using CloudWatch Synthetics — what it is, what it costs, and how we set it up.

new digs

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000

Introducing the new tacedata.ca — why I moved from WordPress to a static site on AWS, and what I plan to do with it.

contact

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:55:14 -0300

Email: contact@tacedata.ca

Additional company information:

Company Name: TACE Data Management Inc
Legal Structure: Canadian Corporation
Certifications: Oracle 19c OCP, Oracle Data Guard Specialist, legacy Oracle OCPs

site: stage 5: cutting over a website

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Moving tacedata.ca from Websavers DNS to AWS Route 53 — what the cutover actually involves, and how to do it without taking the site down.

site: stage 4: building the site itself

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Getting the site into a state worth sharing — PaperMod setup, profile home page, content structure, and a few problems solved along the way.

tacedata.ca — this site

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A static portfolio site built with Hugo and deployed to AWS via a fully automated GitHub Actions pipeline.

about tace data, and scott

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TACE Data Management Inc

The letters in TACE are taken from the first letters in each of our children’s names.

TACE Data Management Inc is an incorporated consultancy, established in July 2025. It was created partly in response to a job transition and available consultancy work - I needed a way to manage revenue properly. It has also become a source of learning in its own right. Owning a company often shapes the direction and structure of the personal projects you’ll find on this site.

site: stage 3: deploying a static site on aws

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How we set up S3, CloudFront, and a GitHub Actions deploy pipeline for tacedata.ca — no long-lived credentials, no manual deploys.

site: stage 2: migrating email before touching dns

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why email migration had to happen before any DNS work — moving tacedata.ca email to Fastmail without losing anything.

site: stage 1: choosing a static site generator

Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Evaluated Hugo and three themes before committing to a stack — and what we were actually looking for.