Crackable CA Keys: Your Browser Got Patched. Did Your Stack?
Eight eMudhra CA keys were recoverable. Browsers blocked them in hours, but Go services, mobile apps and old containers need their own fix. Here's how to check yours.
Thankful for the AWS Community Builders Program & Building + AWS Step Functions 101
Discover how the AWS Community Builders Program fosters career growth with a global network, exclusive training, and mentorship. Learn to build a holiday-themed AWS Step Function state machine as a tribute to the program's leaders, showcasing the community's spirit of collaboration and support while learning how Step Functions and State Machines work with AWS Lambda Functions.
AWS x Valorant Champions
Super excited to be bringing you all behind-the-scenes of Valorant Champions this week with Riot Games x Amazon Web Services (AWS)! Last night at the kickoff, we learned a lot today about how Riot Games scaled Valorant across many technical challenges including: scaling a global gaming ecosystem as an ISP / internet network, optimizing for 35ms latency for users around the world, migrating an on-premise server system to the cloud to utilize highly responsive technologies, and solving for the “peeker’s advantage” issue where users with faster internet systems could work faster than users affected by lower bandwidth/latency…
Why you should be learning cloud in 2023 | AWS Community Builders Program
I'm diving into how I built my career in tech and explain how the AWS Community Builders program allowed me to really dive deep into the tech ecosystem. Today's episode focuses on AWS, the community, the core benefits of the program, and how it has helped me level up as a software engineer and developer a few years ago…
AWS re:Invent 2022 Talk: "Become a Full-Stack Developer: Migrating my company from GCP to AWS"
At AWS re:Invent 2022, I delivered a 30 minute DevChat on how to become a full-stack developer through the lens of migrating my company from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you've ever... wanted to build serverless apps, wanted to start your developer journey, wanted to become a full-stack developer, or wanted an excuse to start building something on your mind... then this 30-minute talk is for you…
AWS Amplify CLI Installation Guide (M1/M2 2022 Mac Edition)
I ran into a core issue where I needed to use sudo in front of all of the AWS Amplify CLI commands, which meant I would have to put in my password EVERY SINGLE TIME I ran amplify something. I hope that this guide helps you get up and running with AWS Amplify, especially if you run into the Error: EACCES: permission denied errors that I ran into…
Learn how to Dynamically Add App Features with AWS AppConfig Feature Flags (+ Linux 101)
In this blog post, I'll go through the workshop, the code I used to run everything, screenshots of the deployment process, and I will also go through how to use Linux and an Amazon EC2 instance to deploy all of the code in a VM (virtual machine). What we will build is a simple Airbnb-for-Cribs home rental application and switch in an image viewer carousel for each listed home via AWS AppConfig. Here's what it will look like (unfortunately, IRL mansions are not included)…
AWS Just Announced that the Future is Serverless at re:Invent — Day 3
We just wrapped up Day 3 of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent and there were a ton of announcements! AWS CEO Adam Selipsky delivered the opening keynote and announced a number of exciting updates and announcements, including Amazon Private 5G (imagine building your own 5G network - how cool is that?!)...Amazon SageMaker Canvas for low-code machine learning in the cloud...and a great analysis of what a modern data strategy looks like…
I built an AI-Powered Image Processor at AWS re:Invent 😱 - Day 2
Just wrapped up Day 2 of Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent and from the Midnight Madness concert, to building an AI-Powered Image Processor during Talia Nassi's workshop, to catching up with Adrienne Tacke from MongoDB, and even building an AI-Powered image processing application. There is a TON going on Vegas!…
Join me at AWS re:Invent - Level Up as a Developer and Software Engineer with me - DAY 1
I have an exciting announcement friends!! I just touched down in Las Vegas for day 1 of AWS' re:Invent 2021 conference 🌄 and I cannot wait to share this week's exciting updates, announcements, learnings, and opportunities to level up in cloud computing, serverless, and DevOps with you all…
How to Build Serverless Workflows with AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda Functions
Gone are the days where you'd have to spin up physical servers with your own hardware and maintain it to build and run your own apps. Thanks to the AWS serverless suite of tools, we can now run full-stack applications, and even functions and compute power, right from the cloud. Today, we're going to be building a full-stack serverless Age Sorting Application. We'll discuss how to use various AWS tools, such as API Gateway, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda Functions, and connect them to a ReactJS front-end user interface so that we can take in user inputs and algorithmically filter the input based on what we tell the code to look for…
How DevOps Works and Keeps the Lights On with Jason Schrader & CityCoins
In the spirit of #Hacktoberfest 🎃, I'll be going live on YouTube today at 8:00pm EST (5:00pm PST) for another livestream with Jason Schrader, a big open source technology advocate, as well as a core developer of CityCoins and Stacks blockchain advocate, to talk about how DevOps works and specifically why DevOps is so important for keeping the lights on…
How to Get Started in Open Source (#Hacktoberfest) with Jason Schrader & CityCoins
Today 2 years back, I attended DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest 2019 🎃 In a couple weeks thanks to some very helpful blog posts, I learned how to work on open source projects on GitHub which are skills I still use today. This changed how I thought about open innovation and coding forever — it was a really transformational experience. In the spirit of #Hacktoberfest, I'll be going live on YouTube today at 8:00pm EST (5:00pm PST) with Jason Schrader, a big open source technology advocate, as well as a core developer of CityCoins and Stacks blockchain advocate, to talk about how to get started in open-source and learn how to contribute to tech projects from anywhere in the world….