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.
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.
sixth post in the series: adding threshold detection and SNS email alerts so meaningful indicator crossings surface without having to check the dashboard.
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.
Adding a daily GitHub Actions cron workflow so future-dated Hugo posts go live on their scheduled date without a manual push.
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.
third post in the series: moving all data fetching out of the browser and into AWS Lambda.
second post in the series: giving the dashboard a proper home on tacedata.ca and the decisions that went into it.
first post in a series documenting the build-out of a Canadian economic indicators dashboard.
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.