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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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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; [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Detect Report React Rethinking the Manual Incident Response Playbook
In June 2026, nineteen Philippine government websites, including those of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the National Bureau of Investigation, were defaced within a single week by a hacktivist group calling itself "Nullsec Philippines." By the time the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) issued its [...]
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 [...]

5 Best Cloud Projects For Beginners

If you are a student, career changer, or IT professional who wants to work in the cloud computing industry, you must present your portfolio to the interviewer. A portfolio is a collection of previous projects and experiences, which can be paid or unpaid. This shows the interviewer that you know what you're talking about and that you have the skills required for the job. As a beginner, you must understand how to use a [...]

Azure 101: Subscriptions And Management Groups

In Microsoft Azure, a subscription is an agreement between a customer and Microsoft on how to pay for and access Azure services. It is paid based on the consumption of services within the subscription. For example, if you provisioned Azure Virtual Machines, App Service, Azure SQL Database, and other services, your subscription will be billed based on using these services. There are many types of subscriptions. Each type of subscription may have various characteristics and limitations, [...]

Azure 101: Regions And Availability Zones

Natural disasters are no laughing matter that we can take for granted; they can seriously mess up a business and its operations, especially when using traditional on-premises IT infrastructure. Luckily, with Azure regions and availability zones, companies can have a backup plan to ensure data redundancy, disaster recovery, scalability, and remote access. With Microsoft Azure, companies can continue to operate even in the face of natural disasters. This means that businesses can stay operational [...]

Don’t Learn AWS Until You Know These Things

Learning AWS is like trying to drink from a firehose. At least, that's how I remember it felt when I jumped into AWS years ago as a non-IT guy. I often bounced around between different articles and Youtube videos, struggling to make sense of all the concepts. One moment, I'd be focusing on an EC2 tutorial but then realize I needed to understand VPCs first, so I'd click over to a video about networking. [...]

What Is The AWS Community Builders Program And How To Apply

Are you passionate about creating technical content like blog posts, videos, etc., especially in Amazon Web Services (AWS)? Ever heard of AWS Community Builders Program? You might be interested in becoming an AWS Community Builder. In this article, we will discuss what AWS Community Builders Program is about, its benefits, and how to apply to become an AWS Community Builder. So what is AWS Community Builders Program? AWS Community Builders Program is an initiative [...]

Creating And Mounting An Azure File Share

A file server provides organizations with a system to centrally store, manage, and access files within a network, such as documents, images, videos, logs, etc. With file servers, users can easily share and collaborate on files with others. Azure Files is a fully managed file share solution that aims to replace or supplement on-premises file servers. It is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering by Microsoft Azure that is accessible by SMB and [...]

Deploying Docker Images To Azure Container Apps

Containers, cloud-native, and microservices are all used in modern software development and deployment. A container is a standalone executable package that contains everything needed to run a piece of software, creating an isolated environment for the application. While microservices are an architectural paradigm for developing applications composed of small, independent services. This enables teams to autonomously build, deploy, and grow their services, increasing the speed and agility of the development process. In Microsoft Azure, [...]

Reduce The Cost Of Your Lambda Functions With Event Filters (Part 2 of 2)

Introduction In the first part of this post, we covered the concept behind event filtering in AWS Lambda and learned how it could help you save money by invoking functions only when necessary. Now it's time to put that knowledge into practice. In this part 2, we’ll see event filtering in action using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) as the event source. Overview A user sends a JSON message to the SQS queue. Event [...]

Reduce The Cost Of Your Lambda Functions With Event Filters (Part 1 of 2)

Problem statement You are primarily billed based on how long your Lambda functions run and how often it is invoked. This is why AWS Lambda is great for scheduled jobs, short-duration tasks, and event-based processes. But does this mean you shouldn’t use them for high-volume traffic applications? Well, the short answer is... it depends. Whether or not to use AWS Lambda for high-volume traffic workloads ultimately depends on the requirements of your application and [...]

SFTP On Your Ubuntu EC2 Instance – Quick and Simple Setup

SFTP, which stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol, is a method of transferring files between computers. It operates over SSH (Secure Shell) and uses public-key cryptography for authentication. This means that your login credentials and file transfers are encrypted, making them much more secure than the traditional FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Why SFTP over SCP? SFTP and Secure Copy Protocol (SCP) are both network protocols that you can use for transferring files. They also [...]