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AI Agents on Azure: Practical Insights for Learners
Many people learning Azure still struggle with repetitive manual tasks. AI Agents on Azure for learners offer a practical way to handle these challenges. When a 2 AM alert fires, the usual process involves manually checking the cause, reviewing affected processes, and examining the whole system. AI agents can [...]
What Happens When AI Can Start Buying Things for You? — Understanding UCP
Imagine asking an AI: “Find me a mechanical keyboard under ₱3,000 and just order it for me.” And instead of giving you links… it actually completes the purchase. Sounds convenient, but also a bit unsettling at the same time. That might sound futuristic, but this idea is becoming increasingly [...]
Amazon S3 Files: Object Storage Meets File Performance
Hello, Dojos! If you're a student or an aspiring architect, you know Amazon S3 is the "infinite warehouse" of the cloud. It’s perfect for storing massive datasets, but it can be slow to grab one small file when your code is running. Traditionally, you had to manually copy data [...]
From Guided Labs to Real Projects: How Azure PlayCloud Labs Helps Beginners Apply What They Learn
When beginners first explore cloud computing, one common assumption is that they need to understand everything before they can start building anything. For many learners, platforms like Azure can feel overwhelming at first, not because the concepts are impossible, but because the environment looks complex and production-like, where mistakes [...]
How I Used AI to Teach Myself Python (No Coding Background Required)
The problem: our education was not enough Companies today are aggressively hiring for AI and tech skills. The job postings are everywhere. But here is the uncomfortable truth: the education most of us received did not prepare us for this shift. I took Computer Engineering in college, but it [...]
You Don’t Need to Start Over in Tech: Turning Your Past Skills Into an Advantage
When people talk about entering the tech field, one idea often comes up: that starting over in tech means you have to start from zero. For many students and beginners, this belief can feel intimidating. It creates the impression that only those with a strong technical background can succeed, [...]
Learning from Tutorials Is Easy But Can You Build Without Them?
You’ve probably done this before, especially if you’ve been learning from tutorials online. You open a YouTube video, follow along step by step, and after a few hours, you end up with something that actually works. Maybe it’s a website, an app, or just a small project you found [...]
From Render to Revenue: Automating Your Creative Workflow with AWS and Python
As a content creator, your value lies in your vision, not in the three hours you spend renaming files, transcoding 4K footage into proxies, or manually uploading clips to five different social platforms. In the industry, we call the repetitive, soul-crushing tasks "undifferentiated heavy lifting." In this article, we’ll [...]
Why Having a Portfolio (With Real Projects) Changes Everything
When I first started learning tech, I genuinely thought the only thing that mattered was stacking skills. I kept chasing tutorials, certifications, and whatever tool people said was “in demand,” because it felt like the safest way to grow. But the biggest turning point in my journey happened when I [...]
Claude Skills Guide: Best Skills to Use Right Now (2026 Edition)
Claude Skills are quickly becoming one of the most powerful ways to use AI effectively, but the growing number of available Skills has also made things more confusing. With thousands of options across GitHub and community hubs, it’s easy to assume that more Skills automatically mean better results. In reality, [...]

NEWS: AWS re:Invent 2020 will be Hosted Online and Registration is FREE!

NEWS: AWS re:Invent 2020 will be Hosted Online and Registration is FREE! AWS re:Invent is a conference organized by Amazon Web Services for the cloud computing community. Since 2012, the conference has always been held in Las Vegas, but this time it’s going to be different. This 3-week conference will now be hosted online, and take note that this event is FREE for everyone. To join AWS re:Invent 2020 on November 30 - December [...]

AWS Glue

Bookmarks Use Cases Concepts Populating the AWS Glue Data Catalog Authoring Jobs Glue DataBrew Monitoring Security Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Glue Cheat Sheet A fully managed service to extract, transform, and load (ETL) your data for analytics. Discover and search across different AWS data sets without moving your data. AWS Glue consists of: Central metadata repository ETL engine Flexible scheduler Use [...]

Managing Amazon GuardDuty Security Findings Across Multiple Accounts

In our previous article, we discussed how GuardDuty can help organizations monitor their workloads and AWS accounts from malicious activities and how to monitor findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events. Imagine that your organization has multiple AWS accounts for different workloads, teams, and projects. With every account, you need to monitor GuardDuty findings individually. It will be quite difficult for your security team to monitor these findings with their constant switching between AWS accounts. Amazon [...]

Monitoring GuardDuty Findings with Amazon CloudWatch Events

Large scale cyber attacks are now becoming normal in this age of interconnectivity. As we rely more and more on cloud technologies, companies are looking to tap into digital innovations to improve their businesses. Cyber attacks are costing companies millions of dollars of downtime not to mention the possibility of lawsuits whenever an attack occurs. It is imperative that security teams have the means to prevent, detect, and take actions to ensure that the [...]

Aurora Serverless Tutorial Part 2

In the first part of this tutorial, we gave a walkthrough on Aurora Serverless and its use case. You can read the article here. For this tutorial, we will do some hands-on training and create an Aurora Serverless database. Creating an Aurora Serverless Database: 1. Open the AWS console and go to RDS. Click the button “Create database”. 2. Choose Amazon Aurora. You can either choose MySQL or PostgreSQL compatibility. In this tutorial, we [...]

Aurora Serverless Tutorial – Part 1

What is Aurora Serverless? Before we get into it, let us briefly define Aurora and serverless first. Aurora is a fully managed, closed source relational database that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. According to Amazon, it is five times faster than the standard MySQL and three times faster than PostgreSQL. It uses a distributed architecture that provides fault tolerance and high availability. Serverless is a technique in the cloud that follows the ‘pay-per-use’ [...]

Google Cloud Source Repositories

Google Cloud Source Repositories Cheat Sheet A fully managed git repository where you can securely manage your code. Features You will be able to extend your git workflow with Cloud Source Repositories. Set up a repository as a Git remote. Push, pull, clone, log, and perform other Git operations as required by your workflow. You can create multiple repositories for a single Google Cloud project. This allows you to organize the code associated with [...]

Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Google Cloud Deployment Manager Cheat Sheet Google Cloud Deployment Manager is an infrastructure deployment service that automates the creation and management of Google Cloud resources. Features You can write template and configuration files and utilize them to create deployments that have a variety of Google Cloud services working together, such as: Cloud Storage Compute Engine Cloud SQL A configuration defines the structure of your deployment. You must specify a configuration on a YAML file [...]

Google Cloud Billing

Bookmarks Features Cloud Billing Account & Payments Profile Cloud Billing Reports Cloud Billing Budgets Overview of Cloud Billing roles in IAM Validate Your Knowledge Google Cloud Billing Cheat Sheet You can configure billing on Google Cloud in a variety of ways to meet different needs. To use Google Cloud services, you must have a valid Cloud Billing account, Features If you have a project that [...]

Google Cloud Console

Google Cloud Console Cheat Sheet Google Cloud Console is a web admin interface to manage your Google cloud infrastructure. Features You can create projects on Google Cloud Console. With Cloud Console, you can quickly find and check the health of all your cloud resources in one place, including virtual machines, network settings, and data storage. Logging Manage and audit user access to project resources. Track down production issues quickly by viewing logs. You can [...]