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What about Engineering Principles?
There are many great resources that can be used as a manifesto for quality engineering. Having a baseline for your work can never be a bad thing; my favorites are the principles of Lean Manufacturing, Manifesto for Agile Software Development, Bauhaus Principles, and Amazon Leadership Principles. And - of course - The Frugal Architect.
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AWS: Serverless Extended Validation (EV) Code-Signing with KMS
The AWS Key Management System can manage FIPS 140-2 Level 3 compliant private keys for Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing Certificates. Using AWS KMS and AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS, you can build a serverless Code Signing Service for Microsoft Windows binary files.
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AWS: Identify Language in Audio Files with Amazon Transcribe
I am a huge fan of Computer Interfaces; especially non-textual ones. Spoken words can be a powerful interface to digital services; Amazon Web Services has various services and products available that work with audio. To identify language in spoken words and extract textual information, you can use Amazon Transcribe and analize audio files.
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bunq API: Callback Integration with Amazon EventBridge
The weekend was nice; I had some fun using the bunq API and configure webhooks for account activities and explained how to use Amazon EventBridge Pipes to process and transform messages from SQS. Now, it’s time to combine both and get bunq events to Amazon EventBridge!
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AWS CDK: Amazon EventBridge Pipes and SQS
When managing continuous events, Amazon EventBridge is a powerful and fully managed service. With Amazon EventBridge Pipes it’s easy to organize, structure, and transform incoming data messages. Using the AWS Cloud Development Kit, this guide will configure an Amazon SQS Queue and use Amazon EventBridge Pipes for data processing and transformation.
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bunq API: Configure Callbacks for your Banking Accounts
The digital banking service bunq has an API for their banking accounts. With support for webhooks, you can easily track any activity within your account! bunq calls them Callbacks. This guide explains how to use the bunq mobile application and some cURL requests to get a JSON request for every activity in your bunq banking accounts.
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Generative AI: Amazon Bedrock with AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions can easily be used to wrap existing AWS services and persist specific use cases. For example, AWS Step Functions can call the Amazon Bedrock API to generate text responses using the AI21 Labs Jurassic-2 models. You can create a Step Function using the AWS Management Console, or the AWS Cloud Development Kit.
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Bluesky API and AT Protocol using TypeScript
The current en vogue alternative for Twitter is the invite-only services Bluesky. Based on the open specifications of the foundational concept, the AT Protocol, and the available API client on GitHub, it is not that complex to retrieve details of one of your posts; for example the number of likes.
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AWS CDK: API Gateway Service Integrations for Amazon EventBridge
The previous post described how to create an Amazon EventBridge Event Bus with Amazon CloudWatch Log forwarding using the AWS CDK. Publishing events works fine with the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI, but you can also use Service Integrations for Amazon API Gateway; this works for HTTP and Rest API Gateways.
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AWS CDK: Amazon EventBridge and CloudWatch Logs
Amazon EventBridge is a powerful service to build event-driven applications at scale across AWS. To get started with EventBridge, you just need to create an Event Bus; for example, using the AWS Cloud Development Kit. Next, forwarding all events to an Amazon CloudWatch Log group enables basic insights into all processed events.
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AWS CDK: AppSync GraphQL API for Amazon Bedrock
Based on invoking Amazon Bedrock with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, you can adapt the AWS Cloud Development Kit example code to use AWS AppSync and GraphQL for accessing Amazon Bedrock.
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AWS CDK: Use Amazon Bedrock with AWS Lambda & API Gateway
After using Amazon Bedrock Generative AI with the AWS CLI and AWS JavaScript SDK, this guide will explain how to create an Amazon API Gateway and use the AWS Cloud Development Kit and AWS Lambda to invoke Amazon Bedrock.
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