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December 18th, 2023
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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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December 10th, 2023
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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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December 10th, 2023
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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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December 9th, 2023
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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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December 3rd, 2023
369 Words
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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November 26th, 2023
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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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October 31st, 2023
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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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October 31st, 2023
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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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October 30th, 2023
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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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October 30th, 2023
351 Words
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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October 30th, 2023
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After using Amazon Bedrock Generative AI with the AWS CLI, you may also want to use the AWS JavaScript SDK to invoke an available Amazon Bedrock Model.
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October 28th, 2023
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With AWS re:Invent 2023 just around the corner, the frequency of AWS press releases increases. Generative AI is a hot topic everywhere, tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT lower the bar for non-technical people, and I wonder how and when AWS will introduce a more solution-like Genrative AI service.
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October 25th, 2023
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When using the AWS Software Development Kit, pagination in API responses is a common and sometimes annoying to deal with. Thanks to a shared interfaced in @aws-sdk
clients, can you can establish a common pattern to interact with AWS paginated API actions using the JavaScript SDK v3. Retrieving all AWS Accounts in your AWS Organization is a neat example use case for this.
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October 22nd, 2023
728 Words
To maintain a common foundation of resources across a complex AWS Organization, CloudFormation StackSet is the perfect companion. Usually, you want to deploy a common baseline of AWS resources and additionally specificy custom deployments; like setting custom contact information for billing, operations, or security communications.
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October 21st, 2023
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What do I like the most about Generative AI? The endless possibilities and different perspectives on the process. In my opinion, a reliable prompt design will be an important skill for using generative AI effectively. Sure, anybody can sign up for a service like Midjourney.com or Leonardo.Ai, but how can you achieve reliable results? In Hamburg, the Design Zentrum Hamburg by the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft organized two Prompt Battle events to explore generative AI.
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February 17th, 2022
561 Words
Following the first guide on how to use AWS Amplify Studio and Figma to create React components, this guide covers theme management with Figma and the Amplify UI. Based on Design Tokens and System UI Theme Specification.
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January 29th, 2022
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At re:Invent 2021, AWS Amplify announced AWS Amplify Studio, a visual development portal to build and operate web applications. Together with Figma, you can easily manage UI components and generate React components without any development tasks.
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AWS has everything you need for secure and reliable data storage. With Amazon S3, you can easily build a low-cost and high-available solution. Together with the available features for regional replication, you can easily have automatic cross-region backups for all data in S3.
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April 28th, 2021
229 Words
For managing a multi-account AWS environment, Control Tower is a great tool. But, using the Account Factory to create new AWS accounts is always annoying. With AWS Systems Manager Automations, you can build a custom interface to create AWS accounts.
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March 11th, 2021
362 Words
When coming from a serverless perspective, setting up an Application Load Balancer with VPC sounds like much to do for just invoking an AWS Lambda function. Thanks to the AWS CDK, it’s not that complex.
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February 14th, 2021
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Managing and securing multiple AWS accounts gets complex. superwerker is a free and open-source solution to automate the setup and management of your multi-account AWS environments. Based on our experiences at superluminar, we teamed up with kreuzwerker from Berlin to bundle prescriptive best practices from multiple years of cloud consulting and created superwerker.
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January 4th, 2021
388 Words
During Re:invent 2020, AWS announced an official AWS IoT Edukit hardware device. The M5Stack Core2 is an ESP32 development kit loaded with a display, touchscreen, motion sensor and microphone. Everything is powered either using USB or the built-in battery. The device supports FreeRTOS and is validated through AWS Device Qualification Program.
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January 3rd, 2021
73 Words
All photos on my Instagram account are in landscape format. Some photos are great to be used as wallpapers, I try to group them here. You can download, use, and adapt all wallpapers using the CC BY-SA 4.0 License.
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December 17th, 2020
486 Words
To decouple services on AWS, it’s a common pattern to use Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. With AWS Key Management Service, you can encrypt the messages stored in the SNS topic and SQS queue. For the AWS Cloud Development Kit using TypeScript, you can easily create an architecture for secure message processing.
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December 11th, 2020
270 Words
With AWS CloudFormation StackSets you can deploy a CloudFormation template to multiple AWS Accounts or AWS Regions. You can use the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or CloudFormation to use StackSets. Before using StackSets, you need to configure specific IAM roles to be used with CloudFormation StackSets.