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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 [...]
What’s New with the AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C03)?
If you are preparing for the AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) exam, you may be wondering what the new DVA-C03 exam means for you. AWS is updating this certification to match the skills developers use today—such as building apps on AWS, using AI tools to help write and [...]
What’s New with the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional (SAP-C03)?
If you have been preparing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C02) exam, you may be wondering what the upcoming SAP-C03 update means for your study plan. AWS is refreshing the certification to reflect the broader responsibilities of today’s solutions architects—from designing reliable, cost-efficient systems to integrating [...]
Vera Rubin: NVIDIA’s Blueprint for the Agentic AI Era
If AI keeps getting smarter, can the infrastructure behind it keep up? Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond simply generating answers. Modern AI systems are becoming capable of reasoning through problems, using external tools, retrieving information, executing tasks, and deciding what to do next. This is the idea behind [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]