Helen Anderson

Making applications go faster at Raygun, AWS Data Hero, and tag moderator on Dev.to.

Wellington, New Zealand Joined on Jun 19, 2017

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Product Specialist at Raygun

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Helen Anderson

Jun 4 '19

What your interviewer really wants to know

#career #interview #beginners #database

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Feb 6 '19

SQL concepts from A to Z

#data #database #sql #beginners

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Dec 10 '18

AWS concepts from A to Z

#beginners #aws #architect

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Aug 28 '18

The Journey AWS to Certification

#aws #architect #career

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Sep 9

Shaping your team culture

#culture #career #leadership #team

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Data democratization and modern data management

#database #datagovernance #datademocratization #popsql

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Aug 27

SQL & Database Wrap Up - August 2020

#sql #database #bestofdev

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AWS Monthly Wrap Up - August 2020

#aws #bestofdev

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Helen Anderson for Raygun

Aug 27

Monitoring and Performance Wrap Up - August 2020

#monitoring #performance #bestofdev #javascript

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Aug 23

Avoiding imposter syndrome driven development

#beginners #career #codenewbie

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Helen Anderson for PopSQL

Aug 18

First impressions of PopSQL’s collaborative SQL editor

#sql #database #postgres #popsql

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Aug 9

#watercooler10 podcasts I look forward to every week

#podcast #learning #watercooler

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Aug 1

#discussWhat's your dream job?

#discuss #career

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Jul 30

SQL & Database Wrap Up - July 2020

#sql #database #bestofdev #postgres

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Helen Anderson for Raygun

Jul 30

Monitoring and Performance Wrap Up - July 2020

#monitoring #performance #bestofdev

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Helen Anderson for AWS Heroes

Jul 30

AWS Monthly Wrap Up - July 2020

#aws #bestofdev

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Jul 19

25 ways to excel with Excel

#excel #tutorial #tips #data

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Jul 8

#discussHow do you prefer to be onboarded with a new tool?

#discuss

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Helen Anderson for Raygun

Jun 30

Monitoring and Performance Wrap Up - June 2020

#monitoring #performance #bestofdev

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Jun 28

SQL & Database Wrap Up - June 2020

#bestofdev #sql #database #postgres

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Helen Anderson for AWS Heroes

Jun 28

AWS Monthly Wrap Up - June 2020

#bestofdev #aws

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Jun 21

How to add IF-ELSE logic to SQL queries

#sql #database

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Jun 12

#discussWhat's your favourite custom Slack emoji?

#discuss

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Jun 7

10 tips for new developers

#beginners #codenewbie #learning

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May 26

Why you need SQL window functions (part 2)

#data #database #sql

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May 26

Why you need SQL window functions (part 1)

#data #database #sql

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May 17

Have you VACUUMed your tables lately?

#data #database #sql

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May 14

#discussWhich game are you playing right now?

#discuss

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May 11

How to customise SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

#data #database #sql

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May 10

#discussWhat's your wifi's name?

#discuss #watercooler

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May 8

You should write that blog post

#beginners #writing #blogging

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May 5

AWS Database: The Journey to Certification

#data #database #aws

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May 3

Why I use SQL Common Table Expressions (CTEs)

#data #database #sql

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May 3

SQL aggregate functions and Mariah Carey

#data #database #sql

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May 1

The importance of database modernisation

#aws #database #migration #modernisation

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Apr 29

SQL Joins without the Venn diagrams

#sql #beginners #data #database

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Apr 27

My Tech Journey: Advice for Career Switchers

#beginners #career #shecoded #motivation

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Apr 25

6 Ways to Level Up Your Career

#career #culture #leadership #productivity

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Apr 25

Big Data concepts from A to Z

#database #datascience #hadoop #machinelearning

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Apr 15

Things to consider when writing your next blog post

#writing #blogging #tutorial #tips

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Apr 10

Being kind while working in lockdown

#career #leadership #motivation #productivity

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Mar 15

SaaS metrics: what do the acronyms mean?

#marketing #startup #performance #businessintelligence

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Mar 4

Nevertheless, she coded

#shecoded

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Mar 1

How to use the VLOOKUP Excel function

#excel #analysis #beginners

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Feb 10

Onboarding: How to give new hires a soft landing

#leadership #career #hiring #analytics

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Jan 27

How to hire a data analyst

#leadership #career #hiring #analytics

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Jan 20

Designing the data team

#leadership #career #database #analytics

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Dec 16 '19

#techtalks10 Takeaways from AWS re:Invent

#aws #techtalks

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Dec 12 '19

My 2019 re:Invent: from A to Z

#aws

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Nov 25 '19

I sat an AWS Certification exam online - here's what happened

#aws #cloud #certification

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Nov 18 '19

AWS Cost Optimisation

#aws #cloud #costoptimisation

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Nov 13 '19

AWS Security

#aws #cloud #security

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Oct 17 '19

Free AWS Services

#aws #cloud

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Oct 11 '19

CloudWatch or CloudTrail?

#aws #monitoring #cloudwatch #cloudtrail

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Aug 13 '19

Why a VPC is like the London Underground

#aws #vpc #networking

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Aug 5 '19

How to run successful projects

#career #productivity #communication

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Jun 24 '19

Gently Down the Stream with Amazon Kinesis

#aws #beginners #kinesis #database

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Jun 23 '19

#discussWhat advice would you give your 20-year-old self?

#discuss

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May 20 '19

Entity Relationship Diagrams explained by Sonic the Hedgehog

#database #sql #beginners #datamodel

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May 13 '19

SNS, SQS or both?

#beginners #aws #architect

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May 7 '19

Pearl Jam, Nirvana and beautiful data visualisations

#d3 #javascript #music #datavisualisation

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Apr 29 '19

How to search with your database System Tables

#sql #data #database #productivity

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Apr 23 '19

How to rock your first tech talk

#beginners #culture #speaking #career

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Apr 16 '19

Which EC2 is right for you?

#beginners #aws #architect

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