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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 [...]

Agentic AI on AWS: From Terraform Modules to the Model Context Protocol

Most teams deploying AI on AWS were still running the same playbook: take a foundation model, wire up a retrieval layer, wrap it in an API Gateway endpoint, and call it a chatbot. By mid-2026, the same teams are deploying autonomous agents that reason through multi-step workflows, authenticate against enterprise APIs, call tools they discover at runtime, delegate subtasks to other agents, and roll themselves back when their evaluation scores drop, all without a [...]

Amazon CloudWatch Cross-Account Observability for Centralized Metrics Monitoring

Managing workloads across multiple AWS accounts is a common strategy for improving security, separating environments, organizing teams, and controlling access to cloud resources. An organization might maintain separate AWS accounts for production, development, security, shared services, or individual business units. Although this separation provides many operational and security benefits, it can make monitoring more complicated. Without centralized observability, administrators and operations teams may have to repeatedly switch between AWS accounts to investigate resource utilization, [...]

Building the Next Generation of Innovators: AWSUG e:Novators PH General Onboarding 2026

On May 31, 2026 at Common Ground 8 Rockwell in Makati City, over a half of the organization members, ambassadors, and guests filed in for what was supposed to be a simple orientation — but by the end of the day, it turned into something bigger. The AWSUG e:Novators PH: General Onboarding 2026 – Build & Connect, themed "Brick by Brick: Building the Blocks of Innovation!", was the community's first formal onboarding event, and [...]

AWS Community Day Manila 2026: Build, Break, Repeat

The AWS User Group Philippines (AWSUG.PH), one of the biggest and most active AWS communities in the Asia Pacific region and twice named AWS User Group of the Year in the region for 2022 and 2025, is bringing back AWS Community Day Manila this August 22 and 23, 2026, under the theme Build, Break, Repeat. AWS Community Day is a worldwide event organized by AWS user groups dedicated to knowledge sharing and community building [...]

Marketing your App After Launch: What to Do Next

App marketing begins once your product is live and people can try it. This guide is for solo developers, startup teams, and career-changers who have launched an app but need a practical way to find the right users, measure what they do, and turn feedback into steady growth. Treat launch as the start of distribution Shipping proves that your release is available in production. But it does not prove that people know about [...]

Building the Next Chapter of Microsoft Student Community in the Philippines

"We empower the world. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more." The Hello, World! Your First Steps into AI and Microsoft meetup marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Microsoft Student Community Philippines (MSC PH)—a nationwide initiative dedicated to connecting student technology communities, developing future Microsoft leaders, and expanding access to cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and automation education across the Philippines. For [...]

What’s New with the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C02) in 2026?

Imagine you’ve been preparing for the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01) exam for weeks. You’ve reviewed machine learning concepts, practiced with Amazon SageMaker, and worked through practice exams. Then you hear the news: AWS is updating the certification to MLA-C02. Now you might be wondering: Should I continue with MLA-C01, or should I wait for MLA-C02? Will my current preparation still be useful? If you’re in this situation, don’t worry; you [...]

Building Production AI Agents on AWS: AgentCore Harness, Strands 1.0, and the Multi-Agent Architecture that Actually Ships

Six months ago, "AI agents on AWS" meant duct-taping together Amazon Bedrock, a Lambda function to handle tool routing, DynamoDB for session state, CloudWatch for tracing, and a LangGraph loop you prayed would recover from a network hiccup mid-reasoning. Every team was reinventing the same infrastructure. Every demo worked; most productions did not. That changed on June 17, 2026, at AWS Summit New York, where Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian (VP of Agentic AI) announced what [...]

Build Your Own AI Emoji Generator using Next.js

Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI Emoji Generator but got stuck trying to make a cloned template run on your local computer? Downloading a production-ready starter repository is rarely a plug-and-play experience. You clone the code, run it, and immediately hit a wall of scary terminal errors from database version mismatches to API rate limit crashes. In this tutorial, we will walk through how to take a standard Next.js AI [...]

Claude Skills Unlocked: A Practical Guide to Anthropic Academy’s 21 Free Courses

Anthropic Academy has grown into one of the more substantial free AI learning resources available today, with 21 self paced courses covering everything from everyday Claude usage to building agents with the Model Context Protocol. Every course is free, requires only an email sign up, and is built directly by the team behind Claude rather than a third party reinterpreting the documentation. The challenge most learners run into is not access, since the catalog [...]