While you can always use Koinly (affiliate link) to pull your transactions from Binance and generate tax reports, nothing beats the satisfaction (or frustration!) of doing it on your own. The following post shows how you can generate a gains losses report from a Binance trade history export using nodejs…

Getting your trade history out of Binance for year end taxes is a bit harder than it needs to be. Note that this post only covers spot trades (no margin trades, earnings, etc.) The Steps First get to the Trade History page (click on the image to zoom in). Then export for…

If you have an Azure DevOps pipeline where you checkout more than one repository, you will see this warning in your build results. While this is not fatal, it can cause warning fatigue - resulting in valid warnings being missed because you are used to seeing false warnings. While the…

After spending more than 10 minutes trying to figure out where it was moved to, I have the Information (pun intended!)

You can use Debezium and SQL Server CDC to publish data changes in a reliable and scalable way. Once its a key part of your solution, you’ll need to stay on top of any issues that you encounter. The connector logs and the Debezium FAQ will help you solve most…

AWS DMS (Database Migration Service) supports ongoing replication to keep your source and target databases synchronized. However there are some pitfalls you should be aware of before you use it in production. This post lists some of the issues you may run into with an ongoing DMS task that keeps…

AWS CloudWatch Alarms includes most of the features you would expect in a monitoring solution. However, the ability to set up blackout windows to pause alarms is sorely lacking. Popular solutions includes relying on lambdas - to enable / disable the alarm, or to act as a gateway for the…

AWS S3 costs are pretty low. But when you are getting a $500 bill for storage every month, it is worth spending a few hours to bring that down. Plan to do these steps over a few days instead of at one shot. Since the AWS Cost & Usage Report…