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Nick Fink

Stop Letting Your Software Vendors Bully You

Software procurement can be an overwhelming process, especially if you’re not an expert. Don’t let a vendor lock you into a deal that…

5 min readMay 24, 2023

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Stop Letting Your Software Vendors Bully You

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Nick Fink

Thinking About Getting Into Government IT? Read This First.

So you want to apply your technology skills and straighten out your local government’s open data office, or help your state update their…

7 min readJan 4, 2022

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Thinking About Getting Into Government IT? Read This First.

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Nick Fink

What I Learned About Blockchain From Playing with NFTs and OpenSea

To better understand the crypto economy, I created some animated time series maps to mint as NFTs. Here’s what I’ve learned so far.

2 min readDec 7, 2021

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What I Learned About Blockchain From Playing with NFTs and OpenSea

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Nick Fink

7 Steps to Be Less of a Nuisance When Scheduling Remote Meetings

Here we are, almost two years into the great remote work experiment, and people still can’t get this right.

4 min readOct 6, 2021

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7 Steps to Be Less of a Nuisance When Scheduling Remote Meetings

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Selecting Formats for Enterprise Data Interoperability

As organizations of all sizes adopt data driven approaches to everything, it’s become more important to ensure that investments in…

5 min readSep 14, 2021

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Selecting Formats for Enterprise Data Interoperability

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 3

Creating Infrastructure as Code with Troposphere, Python, and AWS

4 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 3

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 2

Creating an AWS Lambda and Testing It Out

4 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 2

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New Light Technologies, Inc. (NLT

Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 1

Automating feature service creation from an open API and updating it

3 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC, Exercise 1

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC

This is the introduction to my series on managing data hosted in Esri’s ArcGIS portals programmatically.

3 min readFeb 11, 2021

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Serverless ArcGIS Feature Service Automation and IaC

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Nick Fink

Nick Fink

Independent enterprise systems consultant with interests in serverless, IaC, and automation. Oddly preoccupied with data interoperability.

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