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Understanding Your API: The API-verse
In this blog, I will guide you through understanding the various types of APIs. You'll learn about different API classifications you can use for your next project and when to implement each one. This high-level overview of API varieties will expand your knowledge and help you become well-versed in [...]
PartyRock: AI Python Code Checker for Tech Interview Simulation
Bookmarks What is Party Rock? AI Code Checker Tools Comparison UI Components of our PartyRock-based Python Code Checker Python Interview Topics Covered by the PartyRock app Use-cases and Applications of PartyRock-based Python Code Checker Hands-on Exercise: Getting Started with PartyRock Final Remarks [...]
Implementing IP Blocking and Unblocking Using AWS Lambda, Slack, and AWS Systems Manager
Blocking IP addresses is a crucial security measure for protecting an organization's infrastructure from various cyber threats, including DDoS attacks, brute-force login attempts, and unauthorized access. By blocking malicious or suspicious IPs, organizations can prevent system compromise, reduce unwanted traffic, and ensure that only trusted networks access critical resources. [...]
AWS in Bioinformatics: Biology, data, & the cloud
Marriage of biology and tech. With the current technological advancements, how about we throw in the cloud in the tech too? Just like... Bioinformatics in AWS HealthOmics. Yes, you read that right! Are you torn between the two and want to pursue them both? To sit in a laboratory [...]
Deploy a Next.js Static Site to AWS with GitHub Actions and Bunjs
At the AWS Community Day Philippines 2024, during the preparation for the event, the organizers assigned me the responsibility of setting up a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) strategy for the website. Therefore, in this blog, I will explain the approach I took and how I utilized GitHub [...]
Setting up Slack notifications on Tag Modifications for EC2 Instances
Monitoring resource configurations in a dynamic cloud environment is important, especially in production. One essential aspect of managing AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, is tracking tag modifications. Tags are not just labels but vital in organizing resources, enabling billing allocation, and enforcing compliance policies. Any unintentional tag [...]
Introduction to Amazon SQS FIFO and Standard Queues
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service by AWS that allows distributed applications to communicate asynchronously, making it a critical tool for decoupling microservices and improving system resilience. SQS offers two types of queues tailored for different use cases: Standard Queues: These queues are [...]
AWS Console-to-Code: Seamlessly Transform Manual Actions into Reusable Code
Cloud computing today demands efficiency and automation like never before. AWS Console-to-Code is an innovative tool designed to bridge manual operations with automated infrastructure management. By transforming console actions into reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), this feature streamlines workflows, enhances consistency, and accelerates deployment processes. This article will guide you through [...]
Automate CloudFront Invalidation via Slack
In today's digital age where most people are using gadgets, we're likely familiar with the term "cache". Most of us first hear about cache when looking to free up storage or improve performance on our mobile devices especially for android users. If we look at our device's settings then [...]
Streamline Log Monitoring for Nginx with CloudWatch Agent
Monitoring the health and performance of your applications is essential for maintaining reliable operations, detecting issues, and troubleshooting efficiently. Monitoring logs can provide invaluable insights into server behavior, user activity, and error occurrences regarding web services. However, tracking logs across distributed systems can be challenging. Amazon CloudWatch Agent is [...]

Google Cloud Source Repositories

Google Cloud Source Repositories Cheat Sheet A fully managed git repository where you can securely manage your code. Features You will be able to extend your git workflow with Cloud Source Repositories. Set up a repository as a Git remote. Push, pull, clone, log, and perform other Git operations as required by your workflow. You can create multiple repositories for a single Google Cloud project. This allows you to organize the code associated with [...]

Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Google Cloud Deployment Manager Cheat Sheet Google Cloud Deployment Manager is an infrastructure deployment service that automates the creation and management of Google Cloud resources. Features You can write template and configuration files and utilize them to create deployments that have a variety of Google Cloud services working together, such as: Cloud Storage Compute Engine Cloud SQL A configuration defines the structure of your deployment. You must specify a configuration on a YAML file [...]

Google Cloud Billing

Bookmarks Features Cloud Billing Account & Payments Profile Cloud Billing Reports Cloud Billing Budgets Overview of Cloud Billing roles in IAM Validate Your Knowledge Google Cloud Billing Cheat Sheet You can configure billing on Google Cloud in a variety of ways to meet different needs. To use Google Cloud services, you must have a valid Cloud Billing account, Features If you have a project that [...]

Google Cloud Console

Google Cloud Console Cheat Sheet Google Cloud Console is a web admin interface to manage your Google cloud infrastructure. Features You can create projects on Google Cloud Console. With Cloud Console, you can quickly find and check the health of all your cloud resources in one place, including virtual machines, network settings, and data storage. Logging Manage and audit user access to project resources. Track down production issues quickly by viewing logs. You can [...]

Google Cloud Key Management Service

Google Cloud KMS Cheat Sheet The Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) is a cloud-hosted key management service that enables you to manage encryption keys on the Google Cloud Platform. Features Lets you manage your symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic keys the same way you manage them in an on-premises environment. You can decide to use the keys generated by Cloud KMS with other Google Cloud services. These keys are known as customer-managed encryption keys [...]

Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Bookmarks Features Roles Service Accounts Policy Groups Best Practices Validate Your Knowledge Google Cloud IAM Cheat Sheet Create and manage permissions for your Google Cloud resources with Identity Access Management (IAM). Provides a unified view into your organization’s security policy with built-in auditing to ease compliance purposes. Features Lets you authorize who can take specific actions on resources to give you full control and [...]

Google Virtual Private Cloud

Bookmarks Key Concepts Network and Subnets Configuring IP Addresses Firewall Rules Routes Communications and access for APP Engine Connecting VPC Networks Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Google Virtual Private Cloud Cheat Sheet You can create and manage your own virtual topology network where you can launch your Google Cloud resources using Google Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Google VPC is the networking layer of [...]

Google Cloud Load Balancing

Google Cloud Load Balancing Cheat Sheet Google Cloud Load Balancing allows you to put your resources behind a single IP address. Features Can be set to be available externally or internally with your Virtual Private Network (VPC). HTTP(S) load balancing can balance HTTP and HTTPS traffic across multiple backend instances, across multiple regions. Enable Cloud CDN for HTTP(S) load balancing to optimize application delivery for your users with a single checkbox. You can define [...]

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

Bookmarks Features Key Concepts Publisher-subscriber relationships Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Google Cloud Pub/Sub Cheat Sheet Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service for event driven systems that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications. Features Capable of global message routing to simplify multi-region systems. Synchronous, cross-zone message replication and per-message receipt tracking ensure at-least-once delivery at any scale. Pub/Sub delivers each message [...]

Google Cloud SQL

Google Cloud SQL Cheat Sheet A fully managed relational database service. Cloud SQL is available for: MySQL PostgreSQL SQL Server Features Scale instantly with a single API call as your data grows. Automated and on-demand backups are available. You can restore your database instance to its state at an earlier point in time by enabling binary logging. Data replication between multiple zones with automatic failover. You can perform an analytics job by using BigQuery [...]