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glue
5 registry resources · 3 tutorials, 1 skill · roadmap: Cloud
What this topic covers
DE//AGENT currently lists 5 resources under glue: 3 tutorials, 1 skill, 1 reference. Everything below is derived from the live registry — counts, capabilities, verification state and security posture come from the curated records, never from marketing copy.
What you can learn here
Documented learning objectives across these resources:
- Size Glue workers from data volume, not habit — via AWS Glue Job Reviewer
- Use job bookmarks correctly — via AWS Glue Job Reviewer
- Avoid full-table reprocessing from catalogue mistakes — via AWS Glue Job Reviewer
- Lay out Parquet so Athena prunes well — via Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter
- Use partition projection instead of repeated crawls — via Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter
- Measure and cut bytes scanned — via Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter
- Catch the Glue cost leaks before the invoice — oversized workers, reset bookmarks, drifted catalogues — via Production gotchas — surprise bills, region defaults, and IAM overreach
- Keep small files and repeated metadata repairs out of the bill — via Production gotchas — surprise bills, region defaults, and IAM overreach
1 more objectives live on the individual resource pages.
Where this fits in the learning roadmap
These resources map to stage: Cloud (5). Follow the four-phase roadmap to place this topic inside a progression instead of learning it in isolation.
Compare the registry's options
Every entry, its shape and its trust state — sorted by the registry's composite score. This table is the honest version of a marketing comparison: no sponsored placements, no unverifiable claims.
| Resource | Type | Difficulty | Verification | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Glue Job Reviewer | Skill | intermediate | community flags | 37 |
| Review a Glue job for sizing, bookmarks, and catalogue drift | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter | Tutorial | beginner | community | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — surprise bills, region defaults, and IAM overreach | Tutorial | intermediate | community | 34.15 |
| AWS Glue Documentation | Reference | — | community | 26.7 |
How scores are computed: source quality score.
Where to start
Highest composite score first:
- AWS Glue Job Reviewer score 37 — intermediate
- Review a Glue job for sizing, bookmarks, and catalogue drift score 34.15 — beginner
- Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter score 34.15 — beginner
Scores rank provenance, completeness and trust — read how verification works before adopting anything.
Good fits
Start here if you're new: Review a Glue job for sizing, bookmarks, and catalogue drift, Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter.
Cautions and limitations
Security-flagged entries: AWS Glue Job Reviewer (2 flags). Flags mean the record declares capabilities like credential use or write access — read the security posture on each page before connecting.
Production use cases
- AWS Glue Job Reviewer — Reviews Glue/Spark jobs for worker sizing, job bookmarks, partition pruning, and the catalogue/schema pitfalls that cause silent full reprocessing. details
- Review a Glue job for sizing, bookmarks, and catalogue drift — Take a Glue/Spark job through the AWS Glue Job Reviewer's three checks: size workers from the input files' partitions instead of habit, verify the job bookmark against the input pa… details
- Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter — Deploy the serverless query-in-place starter end to end: Terraform provisions buckets, catalog, and a bounded Athena workgroup, Parquet lands in a Hive layout, the table is registe… details
- Production gotchas — surprise bills, region defaults, and IAM overreach — The surprises that turn into invoices: workers sized by habit, a renamed prefix that silently resets a bookmark, thousands of small files, an agent holding an admin role, and a que… details
Install and inspect
Real install commands from the registry — read the source before running any of them:
npx de-agent-platform add aws-glue-job-reviewerAWS Glue Job Reviewer — review first
Further study
Adjacent topics: tutorial (3 shared), cost (3 shared).
Study path: the roadmap places this topic in a progression · the scoring model explains the numbers · the trust rule catalog shows every security check these entries passed through.
Full resource list
| Resource | Type | Score |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Glue Job Reviewer | Skill | 37 |
| Review a Glue job for sizing, bookmarks, and catalogue drift | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Stand up the S3 → Glue → Athena starter | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| Production gotchas — surprise bills, region defaults, and IAM overreach | Tutorial | 34.15 |
| AWS Glue Documentation | Reference | 26.7 |