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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 [...]

Automating PII Detection and Redaction with Amazon Comprehend

Organizations today are entrusted with enormous amounts of sensitive information. Customer support logs, healthcare records, financial transactions, and even training datasets often contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, or credit card numbers. Protecting this information is not just a matter of compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI DSS. It is also central to maintaining customer trust and reducing the risk of data breaches. Amazon Comprehend, a [...]

Build a Model-Agnostic AI Text Summarizer Web Extension

Browser extensions are a great way to bring AI directly into your everyday workflows. Instead of copying text into external tools and websites to be summarized, you can do it right on the page. In this tutorial, we'll build a lightweight, model-agnostic Chrome extension that summarizes selected text using AI. With a simple right-click, users can send any highlighted text to an AI model of their choice and instantly view a concise summary in [...]

AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless Simplicity with EC2 Control

AWS Lambda Managed Instances marks a significant evolution in serverless computing. For years, standard Lambda was the default for running code without infrastructure management, but it offered limited control over the underlying hardware. This new capability changes that by combining serverless simplicity with Amazon EC2 flexibility. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2025, this feature enables Lambda functions to run on designated Amazon EC2 instances. You choose the hardware configuration, while AWS manages the infrastructure. [...]

How to Generate Simple Document Embeddings with Python

Document embeddings are one of the simplest ways to give machines an understanding of text, and in our previous article, Document Embeddings Explained: A Guide for Beginners, we explored how they turn entire documents into dense numerical vectors that capture meaning and context. Now that you understand what embeddings are and why they’re useful for tasks like semantic search, classification, and clustering, this tutorial will show you how to generate them in practice using [...]

Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and Amazon Security Lake

Amazon Security Lake is a managed service that collects and stores security logs from AWS services, on-premises systems, and supported third-party tools. It automatically converts all incoming data into Apache Parquet and formats everything using the OCSF schema. This setup allows different kinds of security logs to follow one consistent structure instead of having separate formats. With this unified approach, teams no longer need to decode or reorganize data manually because Security Lake handles [...]

Can Gemini 3 Replace My AI Toolkit?

I've always approached AI with one mindset: use whatever tool gets the job done fastest and cleanest. I'm not loyal to one model, one company, or one ecosystem. I switch between tools depending on what my day looks like. In school, that might mean summarizing academic papers. At work or during self-study, that might mean debugging code or reviewing a cloud diagram. For daily life, it might just mean drafting an email or organizing [...]

AWS Vector Databases Explained: Semantic Search and RAG Systems

The generative AI (GenAI) revolution has transformed how organizations extract value from their data. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text, their true enterprise potential is unlocked only when they can access proprietary, domain-specific information. This necessity has propelled vector databases from a specialized niche into an essential pillar of modern AI infrastructure. But First, What Are Vector Databases? A vector database, as its name suggests, is [...]

Self-Hosting Judge0: A Step-by-Step Guide Using Amazon EC2, Lambda, and S3

Judge0 is a powerful, open-source code execution system widely used by online coding platforms to run programs in secure environments. However, while it is often accessed as a third-party service, self-hosting Judge0 on AWS significantly grants you complete control over configuration and security. In fact, this level of ownership is essential for handling sensitive data or customizing language support. Moreover, self-hosting enables greater scalability, thereby allowing you to adapt the system as your requirements [...]

Shaping the Future of Student Technopreneurs in the Philippines through AWS Cloud Club PUP e:Novators

BGC, Philippines—November 21, 2025—Designed for working students, budding entrepreneurs, small startups, hackathon enthusiasts, and aspiring tech founders, the Alfred’s Engine Room: Crafting Tomorrow’s Ventures: Kick-off and Ideation 2025 marked the official launch of AWS Cloud Club PUP e:Novators, a community built to empower the next generation of bold visionaries and innovators. As the first innovation hub in AWS Cloud Clubs in the Philippines, it was the beginning of a movement through continuous learning, collaboration, [...]

The Cash Cow + Investment Model: A Career Blueprint from Tutorials Dojo’s CEO

Imagine spending weeks building a course, only to watch it fail. That’s exactly what happened in 2019 to the founder of Tutorials Dojo, Jon Bonso. He had spent weeks building a React Native course. He recorded, edited, and re-recorded, hoping people would buy it. However when it finally launched, the effort didn’t match the reward. It was one of those career-defining moments where you ask yourself: “Am I even in the right industry?” Instead [...]