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AWS Certified Generative AI Developer Professional Study Path
AWS has just unveiled the newest AWS Certified Generative AI Developer – Professional certification. This important credential is for developers and AI professionals who want to advance their careers by building, deploying, and improving high-quality generative AI applications on AWS. This certification confirms your skills in using foundation models [...]
Don’t Struggle with Kaggle: Build your First Data Science Project!
Are you a beginner wanting to start your very first data science or machine learning project, but don’t have the right hardware or enough storage capacity? Well, Kaggle is the perfect platform to start your journey! What is Kaggle? Kaggle is a powerful web-based platform that provides opportunities for [...]
Tech Burnout: Is It Really Inevitable?
What if the dream job, the one you've always been dreaming of and manifesting ever since, is quietly draining the life out of you? This exhaustion is a known feeling in the tech industry, where the relentless pressure forces professionals and students to push until they hit a wall. [...]
Rise of Microservices in Modern Apps: From One Block to Many
Have you ever thought about the pain of fixing just one small piece of a massive software system without accidentally breaking everything else? Honestly, most of the time, that is almost impossible. That challenge led to the rise of microservices in modern apps. It marked a shift from old monolithic [...]
High-Performing ≠ Massive: The Rise and Progression of Small Language Models (SLMs)
Have you ever needed to find a new charger for your device, only to discover that its voltage wasn’t compatible, causing it not to work or even risking damage? Without checking the actual needs of your device, you’ve probably thought that you could go with what the seller recommends [...]
Data Preprocessing Guide for Beginners in ML
Before machine learning (ML) models can generate predictions or insights, the raw data must first be cleaned, organized, and transformed into a suitable format for the model. This process is known as data preprocessing. It is the foundation of every successful ML project. It ensures that the model learns [...]
The Future Is Containerized: Why Every Cloud Engineer Should Care About Docker in 2025
In 2025, software development is moving faster than ever. Businesses demand speed, reliability, and scalability. Cloud infrastructure is no longer optional — it’s the backbone of modern applications, powering everything from streaming platforms like Netflix to AI-driven fintech solutions. In this fast-paced environment, one technology has emerged as a [...]
Chips & Brains: The Psychology of Human-AI Decision Making
Your smartphone just recommended the perfect restaurant, your GPS avoided traffic seamlessly, and your bank approved a loan in seconds—all without human intervention. The speed at which AI operates is awe-inspiring. Yet when the same AI suggests a medical treatment or hiring decision, we suddenly hesitate. This contradiction reveals [...]
Prevent EC2 Downtime: Setting Up Status Check Alarms to Auto-Reboot an Amazon EC2 Instance
When you’re running a production website on an EC2 instance, the last thing you want is for it to unexpectedly go down while you’re focused on other tasks. Without the right monitoring in place, you might not even realize your site has been offline for a while, and repeated [...]
Securing Your Website in Containerized Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting-up HTTPS
So, you have just deployed your first app to the cloud (maybe you have followed the tutorial that we have for deployment insert link here), it’s running great, you have your users now, but then you noticed that little “Not Secure” warning in the browser. Suddenly, your app looks… [...]

How to Change an AWS ACM Certificate on Amazon CloudFront Distribution

Before diving into the steps on how to change an AWS ACM-generated SSL Certificate, it’s important to understand the basics and benefits of this service. Having a solid understanding will provide context for the actions we are about to take and help us appreciate the value AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) brings to the table. What is the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)? AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service designed to streamline the provisioning, management, [...]

Real-Time AWS Health Dashboard Updates via Slack Notifications

In an organization or for users that use cloud services, staying updated with the status and health of cloud services is crucial. It's not just about maintaining operational efficiency and minimizing downtime; it's also about peace of mind and ensuring a seamless experience for both the team and customers. The AWS Health Dashboard provides detailed information about the health of AWS services and resources. To ensure timely awareness of any issues or updates, integrating [...]

Automated RDS Snapshot Management for Improved Data Security

The Automated Daily RDS Export ensures that daily snapshots of Amazon RDS instances are created and made shareable. While RDS takes daily snapshots automatically, these are not shareable by default. To address this, we copy the snapshots and share the copies with a designated backup account. This process uses AWS Lambda Functions and Amazon EventBridge to automate the task. EventBridge triggers the Lambda function daily, which handles copying and sharing the snapshots. This automation [...]

Solving HTTP 500 Errors by Increasing File Descriptor Limits

When it comes to web hosting and server management, facing HTTP 500 errors can be a challenging obstacle. Such errors frequently arise from file descriptor limits, which restrict the server's capacity to manage incoming requests efficiently. However, by understanding how to expand these limits, you can reduce the occurrence of HTTP 500 errors and guarantee more seamless operations for your web applications. Raising file descriptor limits helps fix HTTP 500 errors by enabling servers [...]

Exploring C++ with AWS Lambda Custom Runtime

AWS Lambda is a great service for running code without worrying about server management. While it traditionally supports languages like Python, Node.js, and Java, AWS now allows you to run code in any language using custom runtimes. In this blog post, I'll walk you through setting up a C++ Lambda function that calculates the Fibonacci series. We'll leverage the performance and efficiency of C++ to build a function that runs smoothly and showcases the [...]

Automating Slack Notification for Route 53 TTL Changes

Automating a Slack notification system for Route 53 with a 60-second TTL is intended to provide real-time alerts about DNS records with short TTLs. This setup ensures administrators receive quick notifications via Slack, enabling them to promptly identify and resolve potential issues. Through this proactive measure, the optimal performance and reliability of the AWS infrastructure are maintained. Moreover, this approach allows administrators to avoid potential problems by taking corrective actions promptly and minimizing any [...]

Daily AMI Export: Enhancing Backup and Recovery

Daily automation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) export is vital for keeping IT systems strong and dependable. This process ensures that the latest version of your system's setup is always saved. If something goes wrong, like a system crash, having these up-to-date backups means you can quickly get things back up and running. Additionally, it makes it easier to grow or move your systems because you have readily available copies of machine images. By [...]

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate MLA-C01 BETA Exam Guide

The AWS Training and Certification team recently released the new AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate MLA-C01 exam along with the AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 test this June 2024. This new role-based, Associate-level AWS certification exam will allow you to validate your machine learning skills to your current or future employer as well as improve your AI know-how in relation to AWS. You can be among the first-ever batch of IT professionals [...]

New AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 BETA Exam Guide

Do you always sharpen your competitive edge in the highly competitive IT industry? Are you planning to position yourself for career growth and reach greater remuneration? Generative AI has been making waves in almost every aspect of the economy and job market to the point that the skills you have today could be worth less, or even worth absolutely nothing by nascent AI-powered tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta's LLaMa, Google's Gemini and the suite [...]

Setting Up Slack Notifications for AWS Budget Alerts

Introduction Managing cloud costs effectively is crucial for businesses. AWS provides a feature to set budget alerts that notify you when your costs exceed a certain threshold. While these alerts can be sent via email, they can sometimes get lost in the flurry of daily emails, leading to delayed responses. This is where real-time Slack notifications for AWS budget alerts come into play. By integrating AWS budget alerts with Slack, these notifications are sent [...]