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Data modelling for DynamoDB is often a complicated task due to a fundamental shift in design philosophy compared to traditional databases. You need to approach things using ‘access pattern driven design’, which means that you need to know all of your...
The new AI IDE, Kiro, has just been launched in preview, and over the past few weeks, I have been able to try its features. Below, I share some of my initial experiences and the unique advantages Kiro has brought to my software development flow. Ki...
Finding effective ways to help primary school children revise maths and find their knowledge gaps must be one of those areas where AI tools are going to be able to massively help us. Around this idea, I recently embarked on a little experiment. My id...
When working on adding location-based search to a DynamoDB database project, I discovered there's more than one way to handle geospatial queries. The general principle is that geospatial queries can be managed by storing a geohash as an attribute for...
EDIT: An updated and more accurate diagram can be found in the project’s repository. The repository also contains further technical implementation details. I have wanted to learn more about GitOps and found the perfect opportunity to do that with a...
I recently participated in MediHacks 2024 hackathon. During the hackathon, our team accepted the challenge of creating an AI-powered conversational co-pilot for emergency dispatchers. As emergency dispatchers' training and guidebooks are often outdat...
This tutorial walks you through creating a simple contact form front-end web application with React. The contact form will be connected to a serverless AWS backend, leveraging Amazon Simple Email Service, AWS Lambda and API Gateway. When you submit t...
The first two weeks of the Terraform Cloud Project Bootcamp from Exampro were spent on getting our development environment in Gitpod up and running, as well as becoming familiar with the basic features of Terraform. We learnt how to create, update an...
After spending months working through the bootcamp and creating resources through 'click ops' and AWS CLI, it was time to start automating our infrastructure provisioning. For most of the stacks we used CloudFormation, however, the DynamoDB stack was...
