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AppBuildersPH 2026: Drawn to Victory
Some drawings find their place on refrigerators. Others are tucked away in folders, kept as reminders of a childhood imagination that knows no bounds. But for one Filipino father, a child's drawing became something far greater, an inspiration behind a grand championship. Among 1,270 builders and 281 projects submitted [...]
Practical Ways to Upskill in Tech Before the Year Ends
You don't need to wait for January to start improving your skills. Here's how to make the remaining months of 2026 count, one skill, project, and learning opportunity at a time. As the year slowly comes to an end, it's easy to start thinking about everything you want to [...]
Netlify vs Vercel: which should you use in 2026?
Netlify and Vercel are cloud platforms that allow developers to publish websites without managing their own servers. Both services handle much of the infrastructure needed to make a website available online, including deployments, secure connections, and content delivery. For example, imagine you have finished building a personal portfolio or [...]
Build a Cozy AI Study Workspace with Next.js and Groq
The Importance of Branding in Tech Companies
In today’s fast-moving technology industry, building innovative solutions is only part of creating a successful company. Strong branding helps organizations communicate their identity, build recognition, and create meaningful connections with their audience. This article explores how branding allows technology companies to establish an impactful presence and how creative content [...]
AWSUGPH x Tutorials Dojo September Meetup: BEYOND THE BUILD
What does it take to turn an idea into something real? At the September meetup of AWS User Group Philippines and Tutorials Dojo, four speakers explored the decisions, challenges, and technologies shaping the way we build. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EzMrtZDFE/ On September 24, AWS User Group Philippines and Tutorials [...]
Build an 8-Bit AI Architecture Generator (Next.js & Groq)
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI Architecture Generator, but got stuck trying to force a language model to output perfectly valid diagram syntax? Downloading a standard flowchart library is rarely plug-and-play. You wire up the code, run it, and immediately hit walls, from struggling to [...]
App Deployment Is More Than Just Writing Code
When I first started learning about application development, I thought creating an app was mostly about writing code, designing the interface, and making sure the features worked. Once the application was built, I assumed the next step would be to publish it and let people use it. However, as [...]
Setting up Amazon SES for a Lightsail Based Application
On this article, you will learn how you can send emails from AWS Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) on applications hosted in AWS Lightsail, a virtual private server. You will learn how to verify a sending domain, connect your application, and prepare to send password resets, notifications, and newsletters. [...]
How to Build an AI-Powered Django Notes App for Free
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI-powered note-taking app, but got stuck trying to make the backend talk to modern language models? Downloading a starter Django repository is rarely plug-and-play. You clone the code, run it, and immediately hit walls, from struggling to securely [...]

GitHub Models

GitHub Models Cheat Sheet GitHub Models is a comprehensive suite of developer tools designed to lower the barrier to enterprise-grade AI adoption. It embeds AI development directly into familiar GitHub workflows, helping developers move beyond isolated experimentation. The platform provides tools to test large language models (LLMs), refine prompts, evaluate outputs, and make data-driven decisions using structured metrics—all without requiring separate API keys or complex authentication. Current Status: GitHub Models for organizations and repositories [...]

Agent Skills: On-the-fly capabilities for your AI Agents

Agent Skills are the new boom. If you’ve been following the agentic AI space since late 2025, you’ve likely noticed a shift. Previously, we spent most of 2024 and 2025 obsessing over tools—giving LLMs calculators, database access, and API keys. But giving a new employee a laptop and a login doesn’t make them productive. You still have to train them. For example, you have to show them how your organization works. That is exactly [...]

Amazon Bedrock’s LLM-as-a-Judge: Automate AI Evaluation with Nova Lite + Claude

Evaluating your LLM’s quality should not cost you too much money or even weeks of your time. You’re probably stuck in a limbo of choosing between two options that have their own drawbacks: Automated metrics like BLEU, ROUGE and accuracy scores? Sure, they are quite fast and cheap, but they ultimately fall short in judging real conversations. Since they simply match word patterns, they're not a good fit for open ended responses simply because [...]

A Beginner’s Guide to the Machine Learning Pipeline on GCP

When people hear the term "machine learning," they often imagine complex math, advanced algorithms, or mysterious "AI magic" happening behind the scenes. In reality, machine learning on the cloud is far more practical and structured than it may sound. At its core, an ML pipeline is a series of steps that transform raw data into useful predictions. Think of it like a typical software workflow: You prepare your code You build the application You [...]

Building a Cost-Aware RAG Application with Amazon Bedrock

What if your Client can have a Chatbot that throws a highly accurate responses based on your documents? Without having a guilt of the monthly expenses. Without even subscribing to any costly, AI-support subscriptions. Only pay per inquiry requests to your model provider, and of course only costs you cents, and it lessens when your client is already satisfied with the answer, as it returns a fully verified response based from the documents you [...]

Zero-Sweat: A Comprehensive Guide to IAM Policy Autopilot

Picture this: your application works perfectly on your local machine. You deploy it to AWS, then immediately hit an “Access Denied” error. If you’ve worked with AWS for any length of time, you’ve experienced this. What follows is usually a frustrating dive into IAM documentation, trial-and-error permission updates, and lost development momentum. AWS Labs created IAM Policy Autopilot to solve exactly this problem. IAM Policy Autopilot analyzes your application code and generates AWS IAM [...]

The Year of the Agent: Anthropic’s Claude AI Models and Agents

Looking back on the past year of 2025 coding with the help of artificial intelligence, we can safely say that it was the year of agents, especially pioneered by Anthropic with Claude Code. AI products have matured to offer highly reliable agents that can understand, navigate, and work seamlessly on large codebases. It is the end of the old ways: of manually copying and pasting code into web AI applications. Agents are now [...]

AI-Driven Cloud Security at AWS re:Invent 2025

Cloud computing continues to accelerate at a pace that traditional security models were never designed to support. Development teams now provision infrastructure in minutes, deploy services continuously, and scale applications automatically. However, security processes often lag behind this speed. In many organizations, security still enters the workflow after key architectural decisions are already finalized. As a result, teams spend more time fixing problems than preventing them. Although many organizations attempt to shift security earlier [...]

Amazon Q in Practice: How AWS’s AI Assistant Actually Works for Businesses and Developers

Amazon Q is often introduced as AWS's generative AI assistant, but that description doesn't really explain why it exists or how it behaves once you start using it. If you treat Amazon Q like a general chatbot, it can feel restrictive or underwhelming. If you treat it as an AWS-native system designed around identity, permissions, and retrieval, it becomes much easier to understand. And much more useful. I've spent a lot of time working [...]

AWS Security Agent: Context-Aware Application Security

The Problem: Security Can't Keep Up In the current engineering landscape of our industry, modern software teams are supposed to be built to be able to move fast. Continuous integration, automated deployments, and agile workflows have seen the rise of weekly and even daily releases to be the norm. With rising business and customer demands in the time of rapid advancements in technology, new features, fixes, and changes are constantly pushed to production. However, [...]