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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 Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Bookmarks Features Kubernetes Cluster Architecture Kubernetes API Objects GKE Sandbox Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Google Kubernetes Engine Cheat Sheet Secured and managed Kubernetes services with auto-scaling and multi-cluster support Features Can be configured to automatically scale node pool and clusters across multiple node pools based on changing workload requirements. Auto-repair can be enabled to do health checks on node Choose clusters tailored to your requirements [...]

Google Compute Engine (GCE)

Bookmarks Configurations Instance Templates Instance Groups Managing access to your instances Backing up your instance Sole Tenant Nodes Preemptible Instances Shielded Instances Instance Life Cycle GCP Marketplace Live Migration Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Google Compute Engine Cheat Sheet Linux-based and Windows-based virtual machines Each instance you create belongs to a project A project can have one or more [...]

Google Cloud Platform Overview

Google Cloud Platform Cheat Sheet The Google Cloud Platform is the infrastructure that powers the Google products you are familiar with including Gmail, Search, and Google Photos. In April of 2008, Google announced its first service called App Engine, a cloud compute service for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers. Since then, Google has evolved and added more cloud services to its platform. GCP lets developers build and host applications and [...]

Lifecycle Event Hooks in CodeDeploy

Bookmarks Events Things To Consider In biology, life cycle refers to the series of stages or events that occur during an organism’s lifetime. Lifecycle also applies when automating software deployment on AWS CodeDeploy. Lifecycle event hooks refer to the series of events that describes how a deployment is accomplished. It allows you to control or perform actions on different stages of your deployment. In the traditional way, whenever you [...]

Amazon EBS Multi-Attach

Amazon Elastic Block Store or EBS is a durable block-based storage device that can be attached to your EC2 instance. AWS released a feature called Multi-Attach, which allows EC2 instances to share a single EBS volume for up to 16 instances and provide higher availability of your applications for Linux workloads. Each instance to which the volume is attached has full read and write permissions to the volume. The following are several considerations and [...]

ECS Network Modes Comparison

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) allows you to run Docker-based containers on the cloud. Amazon ECS has two launch types for operation: EC2 and Fargate. The EC2 launch type provides EC2 instances as hosts for your Docker containers. For the Fargate launch type, AWS manages the underlying hosts so you can focus on managing your containers instead. The details and configuration on how you want to run your containers are defined on the ECS [...]

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner vs Microsoft Azure AZ-900 Exam

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner vs Microsoft Azure AZ-900 Exam One way to boost your career in the cloud computing space is through certifications. These exams will help validate your current understanding and knowledge in the cloud. Cloud service providers offer different learning paths such as Cloud Architect, Cloud Developer, and Cloud Administrator. Both AWS and Microsoft have introductory certifications that will test your understanding of the basics. AWS has what they call the AWS [...]

Amazon SES

Bookmarks Common Use Cases Features Methods of Sending Emails Testing Amazon SES Concepts Email Authentication Methods Email Sending Requests Dedicated IP Addresses vs Amazon SES IP Addresses Security Pricing Limits Amazon SES Cheat Sheet A cost-effective and scalable email service that enables you to send mail from within any application. A regional service. Amazon SES is for applications that need [...]

Google Cloud Certifications Path

Bookmarks Associate Cloud Engineer Professional Cloud Architect Professional Cloud Developer Professional Data Engineer Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Professional Cloud Security Engineer Professional Cloud Network Engineer Professional Collaboration Engineer Professional Machine Learning Engineer In the previous article, we talked about the most in-demand Azure Certifications in the market today. In this article, we'll discuss the certifications offered by Google Cloud, which is currently [...]

Azure Certifications Path

Bookmarks Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-104 and AZ-305) Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-104/AZ-204 and AZ-400) In the previous article, we have discussed the different AWS Certifications path. In this article, we will give you an overview of the top and most in-demand Azure certifications today. Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Purpose The AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification [...]