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Data, cloud,
and the things
that break in interesting ways.
Notes on data engineering, networking, and self-hosting from a data engineer who keeps rebuilding the same plumbing.
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When you can't expose a database, don't expose it. Join the network it lives on.
The cloud function had a public IP. The on-prem database had a firewall. Three days, four 'solutions', one actual fix that wasn't a tunnel at all.