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Joe Karlsson

Joe Karlsson

Joe Karlsson (He/They) is an Engineer turned Developer Advocate (and massive nerd). Joe empowers developers to think creatively when building applications, through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need.

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Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Data Engineer and he empowers developers to think creatively when building real-time data applications through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need.

Joe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one of the largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid TikToker and Tweeter.

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Engineering

We benchmarked our ETL tool and synced 1 million rows in 2 seconds on a MacBook

We benchmarked our ETL tool and synced 1 million rows in 2 seconds on laptop hardware, which is 68% faster than enterprise platforms.

Joe Karlsson

August 27, 2026

Developers

AI

Product News

Introducing the CloudQuery Platform AI Assistant

CloudQuery's new AI Assistant lets you ask questions about your cloud infrastructure in plain English - no SQL required.

Joe Karlsson

May 18, 2026

AWS

Best Practices

Security

AWS CIS Benchmark in 2026: Automated Compliance with SQL-Based Policies

AWS CIS Benchmark hit v3.0 in 2024 with 40+ controls. Run automated compliance checks using SQL policies with exception management and multi-account views.

Joe Karlsson

May 5, 2026

Developers

GCP

Security

Tutorials

Creating Cross-Project Service Accounts in GCP (Console + gcloud CLI)

Create a GCP service account that reads across all your projects with one credential. Covers gcloud CLI, org-level vs.

Joe Karlsson

May 5, 2026

Developers

Best Practices

CMDB

Cloud Infrastructure

Comparisons

Cloud CMDB vs Traditional CMDB: A 2026 Comparison

Traditional CMDBs fail 70-80% (Gartner) due to agent-based discovery and rigid ITIL models. Cloud CMDBs use APIs and SQL.

Joe Karlsson

May 5, 2026

Developers

Leaders

AWS

Security

Tutorials

AWS IAM Identity Center with Google Workspace as an IdP: 2026 Step-by-Step Guide

Set up AWS IAM Identity Center with Google Workspace: SAML authentication, SCIM user provisioning, and group sync with CLI or ssosync. Updated for 2026.

Joe Karlsson

May 5, 2026

Developers

AWS

Security

Tutorials

Finding AWS Unrestricted Outbound Access in 2026: EC2, Lambda, and Beyond

Find EC2, Lambda, and ECS Fargate resources with unrestricted outbound access in AWS using SQL. Why egress controls still break attack chains in 2026.

Joe Karlsson

May 5, 2026

Developers

CloudQuery News

Introducing CloudQuery Insights: Cloud Intelligence That Connects the Dots

CloudQuery Insights automatically surfaces connected signals across your cloud inventory: security findings, cost data, policy violations, and audit trails.

Joe Karlsson

April 21, 2026

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