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AB-900 Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Administration Fundamentals Exam Study Guide
Bookmarks Study Materials Key Topics to Focus On Validate Your Knowledge Final Remarks The AB-900 Copilot & Agent Administration Fundamentals certification exam is designed for IT professionals who work with Microsoft 365 and need to understand how to administer Microsoft Copilot and [...]
Deploying an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) Using Terraform
If you’ve tried building an ALB manually in the AWS Console, you already know the drill create a VPC, configure subnets, set up security groups, launch EC2 instances, create a target group, add listeners, and then double check everything because one small misconfiguration can break the whole setup. It [...]
How to Break Into Tech (With Security in Mind)
Let’s talk honestly for a second. If you want to break into tech securely, you need to think differently from the start. A lot of people say they want to “break into tech,” but very few think about structure, architecture, and security from day one. What they usually mean [...]
Stop Running OpenClaw on Your Laptop: How I Built a Secure Personal AI Assistant Using Amazon Bedrock
I'll admit. The first time I heard about OpenClaw and its features, I was obsessed. The idea of having an AI that could actually do stuff rather than just giving responses to prompts felt like living in the future. As a university student, it’s a given that I have [...]
Improving Application Security with AWS Security Agent
Modern software teams are very fast today. Code is pushed daily. Pipelines deploy automatically. Features reach users quickly. This is the success of DevOps. But security often does not move at the same speed. In many organizations, security reviews are still scheduled monthly or quarterly. Penetration tests require coordination. [...]
Real-time Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Redaction Pipeline with S3 + Lambda + Comprehend
In my previous article, I demonstrated how to use the Amazon Comprehend console to manually detect and redact Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from text files. While this hands-on method is excellent for learning the fundamentals of PII detection, it’s not practical in real-world, high-volume environments where speed and accuracy [...]
Are AI Engineers the New Full-Stack Developers?
Something has been quietly shifting in the tech industry. Job titles that used to sit in completely separate corners of a hiring platform are starting to blur together, and engineers on both sides are feeling it. The full-stack developer who's suddenly expected to integrate LLMs. The AI engineer who's [...]
The “Stateful” Video: Moving from Random Prompts to Semantic Consistency
In the early days of GenAI, creating a video was like launching a Lambda function with no database—every time you ran it, the AI "forgot" what the character looked like, what they were wearing, or even the laws of physics in the previous scene.As we hit 2026, the industry [...]
Reinforcement Fine-Tuning in Amazon Bedrock: A Practical Guide for Enterprise AI
Large language models are powerful, but power alone is not enough for enterprise AI. A model may generate fluent responses, yet still miss your company’s tone, fail structured validation rules, or produce outputs that are technically correct but operationally unusable. The real challenge is not just making models smarter, [...]
Don’t Install OpenClaw! (Unless You Read This First)
If you have been on Twitter, TikTok, or GitHub recently, you have probably seen the hype. Clawdbot (now rebranded as OpenClaw) promises something bold: a self-hosted AI employee that runs on your Mac Mini, has terminal access, and takes instructions through messaging platforms like Telegram. It sounds powerful. It [...]

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 [...]

Understanding and Managing AWS Lambda Recursive Loop Invocations

Introduction AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that allows developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It automatically scales applications by running code in response to events and only charges for the compute time used. This makes AWS Lambda an ideal choice for building scalable and cost-effective applications. However, one challenge that developers might encounter is recursive loop invocations. This occurs when a Lambda function inadvertently triggers itself, leading to a [...]

Basic Authentication with AWS Rekognition

In this day of technology, it feels like every application has an AI/ML feature built into it, be it home appliances or accessories, chatbots in websites, or even watches. Not having a feature that uses AI or ML in your application feels like you're getting left behind, and it's very beneficial for users. But building an ML/AI feature from the ground up is no easy task, and it takes time and effort to add [...]

Managing AWS Resources from Slack with Slash Commands

Slack is a crucial application for most businesses. It allows the people working within to seamlessly communicate with one another. Slack offers a lot of features such as channels for text communication, huddles for group calls, canvas for a synchronized knowledge base, and more. As businesses or professionals in the tech industry, you'd be glad to know that Slack also supports app integrations, allowing you to bring your technical workflow right into your channels [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Bonus Part: Machine Learning and AI

Over the past few years, AI has become the number 1 trend in the tech industry and it's easy to see why. With powerful generative AI models like GPT4, we are starting to experience what AI can really do. Fast forward to the present, many businesses rely on AI to improve their efficiency and optimize their expenses. With our growing application, we can utilize AI to give a better user experience and grow our [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 5: Security

With our application available on the internet for millions of users to access, it is now more vulnerable than ever to exploitations and cyber attacks like unauthorized access or Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS). Security could either make or break our application and it is a topic that we must not ignore. With thousands of user data under our protection, it is up to us to properly safeguard our application. Welcome to part 5 of my 6-part series [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 4: Network

Cloud Service Providers, such as AWS, use various networking features to power its cloud computing platform. Having foundational computer networking knowledge will certainly come handy to properly configure your cloud applications and systems. It's important to know about the basics such as the 7 layers of the Open System Intercommunication (OSI) Model and Domain Name System (DNS) but fortunately, AWS makes some parts of networking easier for us. Welcome to part 5 of my [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 3: Databases

Data plays an important part in today's world and there's no better way to handle data than with a database. The only question now is whether we need a structured database or a more flexible database. Welcome to part 3 of my 6-part series called Basics of the Basics to AWS, where I introduce you to AWS by breaking it down into smaller digestible concepts related to software development. In this article, I will [...]

Unified Slack Automation for Purging the Cache

Cached data can sometimes be corrupted, which can lead to performance problems. It can also prevent applications and websites from loading the latest version of their content. That’s why clearing cache is a must, not only does it resolve these issues, it also clears up space. Clearing cache is also a way to protect privacy since cache can hold sensitive information. About the task Currently, when purging the cache for both TD Portal and [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 2: Storage

Every application contains instructions made up of bytes and we want to make sure that these are kept safe in a secure storage system. When building applications on the cloud, it's beneficial to know about the different types of storage systems to pick the right tool for the job. Welcome to part 2 of my 6-part series called Basics of the Basics to AWS, where I introduce you to AWS by breaking it down [...]