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Automating Publications with Claude, Canva, and n8n
Every business that runs a social media page knows the same repetitive cycle. Pick a topic. Write a caption. Design a graphic. Post it on schedule. Repeat tomorrow. Multiply that by every campaign, every seasonal push, every recurring content series, and it becomes a real operational cost, not just [...]
AI Ethics Explained: How to Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly
Have you ever used ChatGPT to help explain a difficult topic? Maybe you've asked Gemini to summarize a lengthy article, generate ideas for a school project, write an email, or even use Claude for brainstorming concepts. If you're a student, you've probably wondered: "Is it okay to use AI [...]
Fine-tuning an LLM for natural Tagalog speech
If you're an ML engineer or a technical lead planning to pre-train a large language model (LLM) for Tagalog or Taglish, how do you start? In this article, we walk through the process of defining a target voice, building a data pipeline, running a QLoRA training experiment, and evaluating [...]
Building Diffender: A Serverless AI Security Reviewer for GitHub Pull Requests with Amazon Bedrock
A pull request can pass its tests, satisfy its acceptance criteria, and still expose a production credential in one line of code. Diffender is an Amazon Bedrock pull request reviewer built to identify that kind of risk before the change reaches the main branch. However, human review remains essential, [...]
AWS Certification Maintenance: Recertify Without an Exam
Many AWS-certified professionals face the same challenge every few years: preparing for another certification exam while balancing work, projects, and personal commitments. While certifications remain a valuable way to validate cloud expertise, the traditional recertification process can be time-consuming and stressful. To address this, AWS has introduced a new [...]
CCDV-F Claude Certified Developer Foundations Study Guide
Bookmarks CCDV-F Exam Domains CCDV-F Study Materials Claude Features to Focus On Key Exam Topics by Domain Important Skills Validate Your Readiness Final Remarks The Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) certification is designed for technical professionals who build, [...]
CCAR-P Claude Certified Architect Professional Study Guide
Bookmarks CCAR-P Exam Domains CCAR-P Study Materials Claude Features to Focus On Key Exam Topics by Domain Important Skills Validate Your Readiness Final Remarks The Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) certification is designed for experienced professionals who build [...]
CCAO-F Claude Certified Associate Foundations Study Guide
Bookmarks CCAO-F Exam Domains CCAO-F Study Materials Claude Features to Focus On Key Exam Topics by Domain Important Skills Validate Your Readiness Final Remarks The Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F) certification is designed for professionals who use Claude [...]
CI/CD Crash Course: From Junior to Senior Developer
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) is the backbone of modern software teams. It's not just a buzzword for your resume — it's the automated pipeline that takes code from "it works on my machine" to "it works in production, reliably, every time." Understanding CI/CD deeply, not just using [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Harness Engineering
AI agents can now write code, browse the web, and run for hours without a human watching. Ask one to build a feature, and it might open ten files and call five tools. It can make a hundred small decisions before it ever shows you a result. That is [...]

Daily AMI Export: Enhancing Backup and Recovery

Daily automation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) export is vital for keeping IT systems strong and dependable. This process ensures that the latest version of your system's setup is always saved. If something goes wrong, like a system crash, having these up-to-date backups means you can quickly get things back up and running. Additionally, it makes it easier to grow or move your systems because you have readily available copies of machine images. By [...]

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate MLA-C01 BETA Exam Guide

The AWS Training and Certification team recently released the new AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Associate MLA-C01 exam along with the AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 test this June 2024. This new role-based, Associate-level AWS certification exam will allow you to validate your machine learning skills to your current or future employer as well as improve your AI know-how in relation to AWS. You can be among the first-ever batch of IT professionals [...]

New AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 BETA Exam Guide

Do you always sharpen your competitive edge in the highly competitive IT industry? Are you planning to position yourself for career growth and reach greater remuneration? Generative AI has been making waves in almost every aspect of the economy and job market to the point that the skills you have today could be worth less, or even worth absolutely nothing by nascent AI-powered tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta's LLaMa, Google's Gemini and the suite [...]

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 [...]