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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 [...]

Using the Secure String Parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store

What is AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store helps you securely store and share key-value pairs across your AWS environment. It is one of the packages under AWS Systems Manager that helps you design a more robust and abstract infrastructure. With Parameter Store, you don’t have to hard code parameters nor save them in config files for application use. You can easily reference them in your applications and AWS resources [...]

SAA-C02 New AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2020 Exam Materials

SAA-C02 New AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2020 Exam Materials Are you planning to take your SAA-C02 (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate) exam soon? In this article, we have compiled a list of helpful SAA-C02 exam prep materials that you can use to help you pass and even ace the exam. What’s this new SAA-C02 exam all about? The popular AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam SAA-C02 is intended for IT Professionals who perform [...]

BREAKING NEWS: You can now take ALL AWS Certification Exams At Home!

BREAKING NEWS: You can now take ALL AWS Certification Exams At Home! The AWS Certification team is now offering extended support to IT Professionals who need additional time to reschedule their AWS exams. This is in response to recent wave of temporary testing center closures around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. Everyone can now take all AWS Certification exams at the comfort of their home or office with Pearson Vue via online [...]

SAA-C01 vs SAA-C02 Plus Developing Story: Expiry Date for SAA-C01 Extended to June 30, 2020

SAA-C01 vs SAA-C02 Plus Expiry Date for SAA-C01 Extended to June 30, 2020 I took the BETA exam of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 last November and got the results 3 months after. Here’s my experience and I hope this may help you when you take the actual SAA-C02 exam soon. I would say that the new exam version SAA-C02 is at par with the SAA-C01 in terms of exam difficulty and format. It still [...]

The New Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is now LIVE!

The New Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is now LIVE! For the past two years of offering practice test courses on Udemy, we have gathered tons of feedback on how to improve our students’ learning experience. One of the most commonly requested feature is the ability to view the answers as you go through each question. A lot of you are able to learn better with this mode vs. having to wait to finish [...]

Released – AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Practice Exams PLUS the Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is Coming Soon!

Released - AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Practice Exams PLUS the Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is Coming Soon! We are happy to announce the release of our 6th AWS practice test course - the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional Practice Exams. It contains a total of 150 high-quality questions with complete explanations on correct and incorrect answers, visual images and diagrams, YouTube videos as needed, and also contains reference links to official AWS [...]

Top 5 AWS Study Tips for Busy Professionals

Top 5 AWS Study Tips for Busy Professionals In this fast-paced world, there are a lot of things in our TO DO list that needs to be accomplished in such a short period of time. We wake up, prepare for work, rush to the office, attend our daily stand-up scrum meeting, do our Jira tickets for the current sprint, attend a yet-another-meeting at work, take care of the kids, pump iron, de-stress, socialize, hit [...]

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Our Thoughts on the Beta Exam for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)

Our Thoughts on the Beta Exam for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Mark your calendars! March 2020 is the expected standard exam availability of the new version for AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02). I took the beta exam this November in order to take a peek on the new technologies and scenarios that Amazon will probably add to the new exam version which they will release early next year. My Preparation [...]

IP Blocking: Use AWS WAF or NACL?

What should you do if you identified a series of malicious attacks on your application coming from a specific IP address? Will you use AWS WAF to block that IP address or create a rule in your Network Access Control List to deny traffic from that IP? It is true that AWS WAF can filter web requests based on IP addresses, HTTP headers, HTTP body, or URI strings, to block common attack patterns, such [...]