Avoiding Unintended Costs: A Cautionary Guide to Enabling Amazon QuickSight
I still remember the day I first explored Amazon QuickSight on the AWS Console. I was excited, eager to dive into the world of data analytics, and ready to experiment with creating dashboards. Without thinking much, I clicked a few buttons, followed the prompts, and before I knew it, I had enabled QuickSight for my account. What I didn’t realize was that simply enabling the service would lead to an automatic subscription, with charges [...]
When Contracts Learn: The Power of AI-Driven Smart Contracts in Blockchain
Have you ever clicked "I agree" on a long contract or terms and conditions that pop up when you install a new application—and then forget about it? We know that it is not recommended to do that, but those long blocks of text are just not it. On the other side, writing and reviewing those agreements is just as painful. Anyone who has tried to write a contract knows the struggle of reading [...]
Ramp Up your Mobile Development with FlutterFlow
As a developer, time is one of the most essential factors in developing projects, such as websites, mobile applications, and others. Most projects take much planning, meetings, agenda settings, blah blah blah, before they even reach the development phase. But what if we throw time out of the window? What if a supposed year-long project is already due for the next 3 months? What approach should we use to solve this issue and possibly excel [...]
What Makes AI + Blockchain A Promising Synergy
Nowadays, two of the most transformative technologies are on a collision course with the masses: “AI vs. Blockchain?” Keep in mind that these two are entirely different, and they function individually, which gives the two a very dynamic opposition. Yet, it’s precisely those differences that make their fusion a promising breakthrough. There’s really no better player between the two. Seriously, why not go for BOTH, right? Just imagine what these two advancements can [...]
Cloud-9.3: Accessing and Configuring Your Amazon EC2 Instance
Hey, this is Step 3 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the second step! Now that your EC2 instance is up and running, you might have noticed something strange, every time you stop and start the instance, the public IP address changes. This means the link to your website will keep changing too, which isn’t ideal if you want [...]
AGI vs. ASI vs. ANI: AI Stages Towards Super Intelligence
"You know AI can write poems, drive cars, and even beat humans in chess... but have you ever asked yourself: What kind of AI are we really dealing with? And how close are we to something smarter than us?" Let’s break this down the way I’d explain it to a friend with curiosity, good vibes, and maybe a few deep thoughts that'll have you staring at the ceiling tonight. First things first, what [...]
Cloud-9.2: Launching Your Amazon EC2 Instance
Hey, this is Step 2 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS and WordPress! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the first step! Now that you've secured your domain, it's time to bring your website to life! In this step, we’ll launch an Amazon EC2 instance, a cloud-based virtual server that will host your portfolio. History 101: From Physical Servers to the Cloud Before diving into [...]
Signed, Sealed, Secured: Amazon S3 Style
Building applications requires extensive planning, ranging from UI design and data flow to database interactions. However, one of the most crucial aspects is figuring out how to allow users to save files such as images, PDFs, and videos securely and reliably within our application. Fortunately, AWS offers a robust and scalable service for handling file storage: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Nevertheless, the real challenge lies in controlling how users upload and download their [...]
Genomic Data with Amazon S3: A Practical Guide to Public Datasets
What if, you don’t have to worry about massive datasets? What if they’re open and easily accessible to you? Would it help… to inspire you to work on that bioinformatics project? Fret not! Have you heard of AWS Open Data Program (ODP)? You will now! Related: If you haven’t read about utilizing SRA Toolkit and AWS for data preparation, you can read it here. Introduction to Related Concepts: Why Genomic Data in Amazon S3? [...]
The New Race to the Moon: AI’s Global Economic Impact and What It Means for Your Career [Opinion]
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" - a phrase spoken by Neil Armstrong as he became the first person to set foot on the Moon In 1962, when President Kennedy declared that America would put a man on the moon before the decade's end, he wasn't just announcing a scientific endeavor. He was firing the starting gun in a race that would reshape the global economy for generations to [...]