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June 13, 2026 4 min read

Persisting Claude Code and GitHub CLI Auth in Dev Containers

Stop re-authenticating Claude Code and the GitHub CLI every time you rebuild your dev container. Here's how to persist both with named volumes, plus the root-owned-volume gotcha nobody warns you about.

devcontainer claude github

March 20, 2026 8 min read

Disabling the Firewall Entirely in gh-aw (Agentic Workflows)

Sometimes you need your agentic workflow to roam free on the internet like an unsupervised toddler at a buffet. Here's how to disable the AWF firewall in GitHub Agentic Workflows, and why you might (reluctantly) need to.

github agentic-workflows gh-aw

September 16, 2024 11 min read

Why You Need to Care About Apache Iceberg Optimization

So you've started using Apache Iceberg and you're loving the features it offers. But have you thought about the cost and performance implications of using Iceberg? In this post we'll look at the new optimization features in AWS Glue that help you manage Iceberg tables.

aws athena glue iceberg

August 03, 2024 6 min read

Let's Try - Amazon Data Firehose Delivery to Apache Iceberg

A guide to setting up an Iceberg table in Amazon Athena, creating an Amazon Data Firehose delivery stream, and delivering data to the Iceberg table using a Preview feature in Amazon Data Firehose.

aws firehose glue iceberg

July 27, 2024 17 min read

Federating S3 Access Grants with IAM Identity Center Trusted Identity Propagation

Explore how to federate S3 Access Grants using IAM Identity Center Trusted Identity Propagation in this in-depth guide. Learn to set up a secure and scalable solution for managing user and group-based permissions to S3 data across multiple client applications and AWS services. This post covers the necessary prerequisites, setting up an OAuth 2.0 authorizer, deploying S3 Access Grants and subsequent AWS IAM Identity Center applications with Terraform, and running a simple client application to interface with the federated authentication. Follow along to enhance your understanding of modern AWS security practices and ensure secure data access management.

aws s3 iam security federation

July 11, 2024 7 min read

Let's Try - AWS Glue Apache Iceberg Statistics

Explore the newly supported AWS Glue table statistics feature for Apache Iceberg tables. This post provides a high-level overview of how to generate column-level aggregation statistics to significantly accelerate query performance. Follow along to set up your environment, create and load an Iceberg table, and generate valuable statistics that can optimize query execution.

aws athena glue iceberg

April 25, 2024 4 min read

Let's Try - CodeBuild Managed GitHub Action Runners

Let's try out the new AWS CodeBuild feature that allows you to run GitHub Actions inside AWS accounts using the same, familiar GitHub Actions workflows.

aws cicd github

April 17, 2024 4 min read

A Pretty Good Terraform Module Template

A pretty good Terraform module template that includes semantic versioning with releases, GitHub Actions, automatic README generation and pre-commit hooks to ensure quality.

terraform cicd github

March 16, 2024 5 min read

Using Claude 3 Haiku as an Eye of Sauron

Using the new Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku model hosted by Amazon Bedrock to watch a security camera feed and alert when something interesting happens.

aws bedrock claude llm

January 28, 2024 10 min read

S3 Batching - Drastically Simplifying Your IoT Architecture

IoT Core, Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose, IoT Rules and Lambda... the list of services that AWS Solution architects will recommend you use to build your IoT data ingestion pipelines. But what if I told you that you could replace all of these services with a single S3 bucket? Without sacrificing any abilities to process, analyze, or visualize your data.

aws s3 iot greengrass athena

December 11, 2023 11 min read

Let's Try - AWS S3 Access Grants

In this post, we'll look at the new AWS S3 Access Grants service and compare it to the traditional methods of managing access to S3 data such as S3 Access Points or IAM/Bucket policies. If you've struggle with massive policy documents in the past, or you're looking for a way to grant access to federated identities, then this post is for you!

aws s3 iam security

November 18, 2023 9 min read

Let's Try - AWS Glue Automatic Compaction for Apache Iceberg

In this post we'll take a look at how to use the new automatic compaction feature in AWS Glue, and how it can help you optimize your Iceberg tables. Use my handy helper script to create an Iceberg table, load sample data into it, and test out this new feature in a hands-on way.

aws athena glue iceberg

November 12, 2023 4 min read

Amazon Managed Grafana - Entra ID SAML Group Attribute

Walkthrough of how a groups attribute can be customized for Entra ID SAML integration with Amazon Managed Grafana, allowing for group based access control to Grafana.

aws grafana entra

October 15, 2023 17 min read

Building a Garmin Dashboard - Automating Data Persistence with AWS SAM and Lambda

Automating the daily download of Garmin Connect data to S3 using AWS SAM and Lambda. The eventual goal is to build a dashboard to visualize our health data using AWS.

aws lambda aws-sam s3

September 25, 2023 9 min read

Let's Try - Amazon Athena Partition Projections

A quick look at how to use partition projections in Amazon Athena accompanied by some hands on examples that cover the basics through to more advanced use cases.

aws athena glue

July 28, 2023 5 min read

Vacuuming Amazon Athena Iceberg with AWS Step Functions

Resolving ICEBERG_VACUUM_MORE_RUNS_NEEDED errors by using AWS Step Functions to retry vacuuming Amazon Athena Iceberg tables until they are clean.

aws athena iceberg step-functions

July 25, 2023 15 min read

Let's Try - AWS Greengrass Testing Framework

A quick look at the AWS Greengrass Testing Framework by adding it into an existing Greengrass component to efficiently test how a component behaves when actually deployed.

aws iot greengrass testing

June 25, 2023 9 min read

Small AWS Greengrass v2 tips for big observability gains

Improve your AWS Greengrass v2 observability by trying some of these simple tips. We explore the aws.greengrass.LocalDebugConsole and aws.greengrass.LogManager components.

aws iot greengrass

April 25, 2023 16 min read

Deploying Containers to AWS Greengrass v2 - A Comprehensive Guide

A complete guide to deploying containers to Greengrass v2

aws iot greengrass cicd containers

April 02, 2023 14 min read

Fine tuning a GPT model that recommends nothing but AWS CDK

I'm going to take you on the journey of building a fine-tuned GPT model that answers technical questions with answers that exclusively recommend AWS CDK.

cdk chatgpt machine-learning

February 25, 2023 7 min read

Automatic API Key rotation for Amazon Managed Grafana

Amazon Managed Grafana has an unfortunate limitation where API keys created have a maximum expiration of 30 days - making continuous deployments difficult without manual intervention. This post will show you how to write some simple Terraform to automatically rotate an API key that can be used in your CI/CD pipeline.

aws grafana terraform

February 05, 2023 12 min read

Sort AWS Config and Security Hub emails with Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate can simplify the process of sorting incoming emails from AWS Config and AWS Security Hub. The tool can automate the sorting, categorizing and prioritizing of alerts, freeing up your time to focus on other important tasks.

security-hub aws aws-config power-automate

January 22, 2023 11 min read

GitHub Actions - AWS IoT build status light

Be notified when a GitHub Action build fails by illuminating an LED connected to a Raspberry Pi, controlled over AWS IoT

aws iot github cicd

January 08, 2023 8 min read

Automate AWS OIDC Role Changes with GitHub Configurable OIDC Claims

A Demonstration of how you could utilize GitHub's configurable OIDC Claims to mostly automate AWS OIDC role changes.

github oidc aws

December 06, 2022 10 min read

Migrate to Amazon CodeCatalyst - GatsbyJS example

Building a simple Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow to deploy a GatsbyJS static site to s3. This guide is meant to facilitate how you might migrate an existing CI/CD pipeline to Amazon CodeCatalyst

aws codecatalyst cicd

September 22, 2022 11 min read

Using GitHub Actions for Greengrass v2 Continuous Deployment

Learn how to set up a Continuous deployment pipeline for AWS IoT Greengrass v2 from GitHub actions. Leverage the power of the Greengrass Development Kit - Command Line Interface (GDK CLI) to streamline your workflow and deploy more often with more confidence.

aws iot greengrass cicd

September 21, 2022 9 min read

Setting up an AWS IoT Greengrass v2 Learning environment

Learn how to set up a simple AWS IoT Greengrass v2 Learning environment that can be used in a wider range of tutorials to get you fully educated on how to use Greengrass on projects.

aws iot greengrass cicd

August 01, 2022 9 min read

Setup GitHub Codespaces with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere

Setup GitHub Codespaces with AWS IAM Roles Anywhere and authenticate your development environment with AWS securely without the need to have long-lived access tokens and ad-hoc user accounts.

codespaces aws github iam

June 21, 2022 3 min read

WSL2 Tips - Never Prompt for SSH Passphrase

When using Windows Subsystem for Linux, it is often necessary to enter the SSH passphrase on reboot. Leveraging Windows stored credentials we can automate the process of authorizing the ssh daemon on reboot.

wsl2

June 09, 2022 6 min read

Exporting Amazon WorkMail content programmatically

Export data from Amazon WorkMail programmatically using CloudFormation and the AWS CLI. No longer do you have to download some shady tool from the internet to export your data.

aws workmail

April 24, 2022 5 min read

Supercharge your command line experience

Want to feel like a command line guru? Check out some of my recommendations to supercharge your CLI experience.

bash

January 03, 2022 6 min read

Cypress Testing in Devcontainers and GitHub Codespaces

Creating a Cypress testing workflow for VSCode Devcontainers and Github Codespaces. You will learn how to setup a .devcontainer configuation that enables you to develop out of any webbrowser.

cypress testing github

July 27, 2021 4 min read

LinkedIn Professional - Deploying a Serverless project

Learn how to deploy a simple python project to AWS Lambda using the Serverless Framework. We will use the LinkedIn Professional Jargon bot as a sample project.

aws serverless lambda

July 26, 2021 5 min read

LinkedIn Professional - Using LinkedIn's API

In this post we go through creating a small function that posts artifically generated status messages on LinkedIn. These messages are generated by taking trends from the ThoughtWorks technology radar and running sentences into DeepAI's text generator.

aws serverless lambda

July 25, 2021 6 min read

LinkedIn Professional - Generating Tech Jargon with DeepAI Text Generator

Learn how to generate tech jargon by taking trends from the ThoughtWorks technology radar and running sentences into DeepAI's text generator.

machine-learning

July 24, 2021 2 min read

LinkedIn Professional - Project Overview

Learn how to generate tech jargon by taking trends from the ThoughtWorks technology radar and running sentences into DeepAI's text generator.

December 16, 2020 8 min read

Feeding my cat with AWS IoT GreengrassV2

In this post we explore the new AWS IoT Greengrass V2 and create a recipe and component for controlling an IoT cat feeder.

aws iot greengrass

November 25, 2020 2 min read

Keeping GatsbyJS Projects Healthy

In this brief post we cover what it takes to keep your GatsbyJS projects up to date and functioning whilst also taking advantages of more recent features.

gatsbyjs

September 27, 2020 5 min read

Kubernetes On The Go - Switchroot

Do you own a Nintendo Switch that you wish you could re-purpose into a portable container cluster? Since the answer is inevitably yes, join me as we take a look at how we can turn a popular handheld console into a scalable PaaS in your pocket.

kubernetes

September 18, 2020 7 min read

Fighting API Abusers - Chaotic Good

When the services I maintain day to day come under attack by a bad actor I decide to take it personally. In this post I outline how you can fight back against sites that might be high-jacking your API for their own use uses.

aws cloudformation waf apigateway

August 22, 2020 5 min read

Amplify Flutter - Cat Image App

With the developer preview launch of AWS Amplify Flutter comes all the magic of Amplify Auth, storage, and analytics to the world of Flutter cross-platform development. Join me in this post as I stand up a simple cat photo app with this brand-new support

amplify aws flutter

July 08, 2020 6 min read

Building the ultimate cat watch

I got my hands on a LilyGo T-Watch 2020 and decided to build the ultimate cat lover accessory. Join me as I take you through building the ultimate cat watch.

iot espressif

May 30, 2020 11 min read

Escaping from technical debt when it seems impossible

On August 16th, 2019 Selfie2Anime went live to unexpected success. Unfortunately, the code deployed wasn't anywhere near ready for the load we experienced and some bad decisions were made in the heat of the moment to get everything up and running. 8 months on and we're dealing with the consequences of those decisions every day. In this post, I tell the tale of how we came to terms with our problems and learnt to deal with them.

opinion

May 16, 2020 9 min read

AWS IoT - ESP32-CAM Setup

Example for publishing images from an ESP32-CAM to AWS IoT over MQTT

iot aws espressif

May 01, 2020 10 min read

Certified Kubernetes Administrator - Exam De-stress Guide

I recently passed my Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam and along the journey made note of a number of useful resources. Hopefully some of this information can better prepare you for your own exam.

cka kubernetes

April 15, 2020 6 min read

Dog Bark Detector - Frontend

Building a Dog Bark Detector to help understand what my dogs do while I'm not home. In this post we cover how to deploy a simple frontend that leverages AppSync resolvers for DynamoDB and build a simple Vue dashboard for interacting with the bark events.

aws serverless lambda appsync dynamodb s3

April 14, 2020 9 min read

Dog Bark Detector - Serverless Audio Processing

Building a Dog Bark Detector to help understand what my dogs do while I'm not home. In this post we cover how to extract and process audio from video clips using a Serverless lambda processor and FFMPEG layers.

aws serverless lambda

April 13, 2020 11 min read

Dog Bark Detector - Machine Learning Model

Building a Dog Bark Detector to help understand what my dogs do while I'm not home. In this post we cover the training and deployment of a Machine Learning module using the UrbanSound8K dataset.

aws machine-learning sagemaker

March 31, 2020 7 min read

Kubeflow on EKS - Cognito Authentication

Kubeflow can better equips your Data science team with a self service access to all the resources they might need to build out Machine learning pipelines and applications. Pair this with Cognito and you have a secure way to work on data projects from anywhere in the world collaboratively.

kubernetes kubeflow aws eks

March 14, 2020 6 min read

Easy AWS IoT with ESP-IDF

Developing simple AWS IoT projects using the Espressif IoT Development Framework (ESP-IDF) and PlatformIO

aws iot espressif

March 09, 2020 7 min read

Fighting COVID-19 with AWS CDK

Deploy Folding@Home on Amazon Fargate quick and easily with AWS CDK

aws cdk fargate

March 01, 2020 11 min read

So, you want to build an IoT Project?

Are you a beginner to developing for The Internet of Things? Perhaps you're an expert but are curious about what new things there are to focus on in? Let's chat about what it means to develop IoT projects in 2020.

iot aws

February 26, 2020 5 min read

Lighthouse CI for GatsbyJS

Google's Lighthouse CI is a programmatic tool that allows you to analyse your web apps and generate detailed reports around best practices building for the web. In this post we're going to explore how we might integrate these tests into our GatsbyJS build pipeline.

cdk gatsbyjs cicd

February 24, 2020 22 min read

Certified Solutions Architect Professional - Study Notes

I recently passed my AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam and along my journey of studying I scribbled down a bunch of notes I took. I thought it would be a good idea to share these random bits of information so that they can be used as flash cards / bite sized chunks of information

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February 12, 2020 14 min read

The A to Z of Internet of Things (AWS)

Join us as we go through the A to Z of IoT from an AWS perspective. We won't be using buzzwords or hand-waving, just talking about the awesome services and how they can be used more effectively.

iot aws greengrass device-defender alexa robomaker

February 08, 2020 9 min read

Amplify AppSync - AWS X-Ray Integration

AWS AppSync is a highly flexible API service backed with GraphQL. Recently X-Ray support was launched for AppSync, so we go through the setup process and some general usage patterns for this excellent service.

xray appsync amplify aws

February 04, 2020 4 min read

CDK Debugging in VSCode

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a powerful way of programmatically deploying resources. I'm going to show you how you can level up your CDK skills with the VSCode debugging.

cdk vscode typescript

February 03, 2020 6 min read

Migrating WordPress to GatsbyJS - Search Engine Optimization

Maintaining Search Engine optimizing is crucially important migration to be considered a success. We discuss some of the methods I used to ensure SEO was not effected.

gatsbyjs migration seo

February 02, 2020 7 min read

Migrating WordPress to GatsbyJS - Architecture & CI/CD

GatsbyJS backed websites need to be statically generated on changes. We work to design an awesome architecture to perform this changes for us automatically using CDK on AWS.

gatsbyjs migration cicd

February 01, 2020 6 min read

Migrating WordPress to GatsbyJS - Blog Posts

There were 48 WordPress powered blog posts currently hosted that need to be recreated in GatsbyJS. We look into ways of converting these posts Markdown in an Automated way.

gatsbyjs migration

January 31, 2020 6 min read

Migrating WordPress to GatsbyJS - Introduction

Migration away from WordPress can be perceived as a difficult task, however utilizing GatsbyJS this process can be achieved in an afternoon. Join us as we introduce how!

gatsbyjs migration

January 25, 2020 16 min read

Alexa Gadgets Introduction - Voice Controlled Cat Feeder

When Amazon Alexa launched in 2014 as the first major home assistant platform I was captivated by the opportunities it offered someone like me. By the end of this article, you will have everything you need to build your gadget by using the source code I've provided to build this simple Alexa-powered cat feeder.

alexa aws iot

January 01, 2020 18 min read

2019 - Year Recap

Last year around this time I was just starting to create my first blog post on DevOpStar. Take a trip with me to review this amazing year; discussing the good time and the bad. Then let's chat about 2020!

blog

December 25, 2019 11 min read

Greengrass - Secure Tunneling

AWS IoT Secure Tunneling is a managed proxy meant for devices positioned behind secure firewalls on remote sites. A secure tunnel can be created using temporary credentials allowing access to the device on configurable ports. The secure tunneling process requires a bidirectional link to be established before communication can proceed.

aws greengrass iot

December 14, 2019 9 min read

Greengrass - Docker Deployments

AWS IoT Greengrass recently got Docker support; a much needed addition to the suite of edge tooling available at our disposal. As with most new IoT Greengrass feature, it can be a bit bumped to get setup with. I would know, I fought through the setup process on the day of release and ran into a couple quirks that I figure I'll share with the world in the form of an unofficial guide.

aws greengrass iot

November 24, 2019 9 min read

Greengrass - Device Defender - Detect

Dive into Detect; a sub feature of Device Defender Detect that allows you to craft your own detection profiles using both cloud-side and device-side metrics.

aws device-defender iot greengrass

November 24, 2019 6 min read

Greengrass - Device Setup

Deploy a learning environment called Greener Grass that effectively boostraps all the AWS IoT and Greengrass configuration for you. This allows you to be able to learn about the advanced IoT features in a friendly & repeatable way.

aws greengrass iot

November 24, 2019 5 min read

Greengrass - Device Setup - Raspberry Pi

For this deployment we'll be describing how to setup Greengrass Core on a Raspberry Pi. This is part of a bigger post called Greener Grass.

aws greengrass iot

October 27, 2019 6 min read

AWS RoboMaker - Raspberry Pi Bootstrap

In this guide, we'll be looking at how to build and bundle ROS applications specifically for the Raspberry Pi ARMHF architecture using Cloud9. The final goal is to have the bundled application deployed over AWS RoboMaker.

cloud9 robomaker

October 14, 2019 10 min read

Selfie2Something - Building a UGATIT Model

Selfie2Anime was a successful use of Image-to-Image translation using UGATIT. In this post we learn how to setup a development environment capable of running UGATIT, then train out own variation of a model.

gan machine-learning sagemaker

October 07, 2019 10 min read

AWS IoT Greengrass CloudFormation - Raspberry Pi

Learn how to deploy an AWS IoT Greengrass Core node onto a Raspberry Pi with AWS CloudFormation.

cloudformation iot

September 29, 2019 9 min read

Flutter CI/CD with Codemagic, Sylph & AWS Device Farm

Flutter CI/CD with Codemagic, Slyph & AWS Device Farm. Easy & Reliable integration testing on real hardware devices; learn how to ensure your Flutter apps run on all device types (iOS & Android)

ci-cd device-farm

September 22, 2019 6 min read

NoSQL Workbench - Amazon DynamoDB Leaderboard

Learn to use NoSQL Workbench with Amazon DynamoDB to create a leaderboard system with global secondary indexes.

dynamodb

September 12, 2019 8 min read

AWS RoboMaker - Beginner's Guide to Robot Simulation

AWS RoboMaker is a development, deployment, and simulation platform for ROS (Robot Operating System). We explore why Simulating robots on AWS is a big deal, and how you can do it too!

robomaker

September 07, 2019 4 min read

AWS IoT - Certificate Vending

Serverless Certificate Vending Machine is a pattern for managing AWS IoT Devices in a secure and repeatable way. Learn how to deploy your own CVM and onboard new devices.

iot

August 25, 2019 7 min read

Building Selfie2Anime - Iterating on an Idea

The development of Selfie2Anime has had its ups and downs. This post is an overview of the iterations we've made along this journey so far and what the plans are for the future

aws gan gke lambda s3 serverless

July 29, 2019 6 min read

Repeatable Data Science - Anaconda Environments

Learn how to use Conda environments to manage hundreds of different & varying python environments. Clean up your projects and make them more repeatable.

machine-learning

July 14, 2019 3 min read

Amazon EventBridge - Slack Notification on Event

WA Animals Amazon EventBridge rule to alert Slack with a Serverless lambda when someone signs in to AWS Account

aws eventbridge lambda serverless

June 17, 2019 3 min read

Practical Istio - Ingress Gateway

Configure a number of different Istio Ingress Gateways allowing traffic in for our various services.

gke istio kubernetes

June 17, 2019 3 min read

Practical Istio - Virtual Services

Configure Istio VirtualService components to route Kiali, Jaeger, Prometheus and Grafana endpoints to the correct services.

gke istio kubernetes

June 16, 2019 5 min read

Practical Istio - Init & Install

Initialising the Istio Custom Definitions and installing Istio onto our fresh Kubernetes cluster.

istio kubernetes

June 16, 2019 4 min read

Practical Istio - Introduction & Setup

A brief introduction into Istio and its role in modern production Kubernetes. We prepare for the future instalments of Practical Istio.

gcp gke istio kubernetes

June 16, 2019 3 min read

Practical Istio - Private Kubernetes Deployment

Deployment of Kubernetes onto GKE making use of GCP Deployment Manager. The process insures we end up with a robust private cluster to work with moving forward.

deployment-manager gcp gke istio kubernetes

June 09, 2019 4 min read

Route53 External DNS management from GKE

Dynamically update AWS Route53 hosted zones from your Google, Azure or On-Prem Kubernetes using external-dns.

gke route53

June 01, 2019 8 min read

Processing Animal adoption papers with Amazon Textract

Using Serverless to consume and processing WA Animals adoption forms using Amazon Textract and placing that data in DynamoDB

textract

May 21, 2019 6 min read

StyleGAN Pokemon Card Generator

Generating Pokemon cards using a mixture of StyleGAN and RNN to create beautiful & vibrant cards ready for battle!

gan machine-learning rnn

May 12, 2019 13 min read

Object Detecting Facebook Messenger Bot

Facebook Messenger bot that does Object Detection on the fly using AWS Rekognition. Hosted on AWS Fargate and deployed using CloudFormation

fargate messenger

May 07, 2019 4 min read

OpenCV 4.0 Serverless Lambda

Run OpenCV 4.0 on Lambda using Serverless framework. Extract images from scanned documents

lambda opencv serverless

April 22, 2019 11 min read

Bootstrap GKE with Deployment Manager on GCP

Google Cloud Platform Deployment Manager bootstrap for GKE. Infrastructure as code for the difficult task of deploying and managing Kubernetes & Google Cloud resources

deployment-manager gke

April 14, 2019 8 min read

Exploring Interpretable and Controllable Face Reenactment (ICface)

ICface is a generic face animator that is able to control the pose and expressions of a given face image. We explore how to use it for fun!

gan machine-learning

April 12, 2019 9 min read

Serverless (kinda) Containers with Google Cloud Run

Containerising PyTorch models in a repeatable way. Deploy OpenAI's GPT-2 model and expose it over a Flask API. Finally deploy it to GCP repositories and publish it on a k8s cluster using Cloud Run.

cloud-run kubernetes serverless

March 31, 2019 13 min read

Containerizing & Deploying to Kubernetes on GCP

Going through the steps required to migrate and host Animal Shelter Manager (ASM3) on Google Cloud. Includes creating and managing a GKE Kubernetes instance and images stored on GCR

kubernetes

March 25, 2019 6 min read

Dune Coloring Book using CGAN & TensorFlow

Automatic coloring and shading of Dune coloring book using manga-style lineart model from deepcolor. Making use of TensorFlow and CGAN

gan machine-learning

March 21, 2019 8 min read

Exposing PyTorch models over a containerised API

Containerising PyTorch models in a repeatable way. Deploy OpenAI's GPT-2 model and expose it over a Flask API. Finally deploy it to AWS Fargate container hosting using CloudFormation.

fargate machine-learning

March 18, 2019 9 min read

Fake Facebook conversations using OpenAI GPT-2

Generate Fake Facebook conversations using OpenAI's GPT-2 training model and a large number of your existing facebook message data. Perform training using Amazon SageMaker GPU instances and CloudFormation.

machine-learning sagemaker

March 13, 2019 7 min read

Open Distro for Elasticsearch Kickstart guide

A short kickstart project for working with Open Distro for Elasticsearch in a practical way. Load in podcast data from The Dollop and analyse the data visually using dashboards

elasticsearch open-source

March 08, 2019 10 min read

Amazon Alexa controlled IoT Traffic Lights

Amazon Alexa controller for AWS IoT connected devices. Learn how to safely expose an embedded ESP8266 over MQTT to control an RGB LED.

alexa iot

March 03, 2019 7 min read

Dyson Fan Control over MQTT via Serverless

Using Dyson Pure Cool Link python library over MQTT & Serverless framework we implement a simple endpoint to control our Dyson device

serverless

February 25, 2019 6 min read

Generating Cats with StyleGAN on AWS SageMaker

Generating Cat images using StyleGAN on AWS SageMaker. Developing a simple and repeatable Data Science pipeline for Generative Adversarial Network outputs.

machine-learning sagemaker

February 16, 2019 8 min read

Building a Serverless Resume with AWS Amplify

Build a Serverless Resume that makes use of AWS Amplify to dynamically display work history

amplify serverless

February 07, 2019 9 min read

AWS Sumerian Magic Cube

Take control of a magical box in AWS Sumerian using an ESP8266 embedded microcontroller connected to AWS IoT

espressif iot sumerian

January 31, 2019 8 min read

Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth

Utilise Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth to offload manual data labelling to the Cloud or other members of your organisation.

machine-learning sagemaker

January 28, 2019 7 min read

Serverless Watermark using AWS Lambda Layers & FFmpeg

Deploy a Serverless function that performs video watermark conversions. Create a pipeline using Lambda Layers fronting FFmpeg.

cloudformation lambda s3 serverless

January 24, 2019 11 min read

Managing AWS Fargate with CloudFormation Nested Stacks

Fargate is an AWS offering that allows developers to worry even less about the systems their code runs on. Using CloudFormation you can orchestrate scalable containerised services entirely as code.

aws ci-cd cloudformation fargate

January 12, 2019 8 min read

Create a Private VPN using AWS IoT Button, SNS & CloudFormation

Deploy a Private VPN to EC2 by Triggering a CloudFormation deploy using your AWS IoT Button. Finally have your VPN Credentials sent to you via SNS.

aws cloudformation iot sns

January 10, 2019 7 min read

Flutter CI/CD Deployments & Publication to Google Play

Recently at Flutter Live there were a series of announcements and advancements in the development ecosystem of Flutter. Specifically Nevercode was revealed to have partnered with Google to launch a Dedicated CI/CD tool for Flutter apps. In this post we're going to go through the process of setting up an existing repository with Codemagic, this new service!

ci-cd

January 06, 2019 5 min read

Deploying a Private VPN to AWS EC2 using CloudFormation

Deploy your very own Private PPTP VPN to AWS EC2 using CloudFormation. Learn how to deploy using AWS CLI or the CloudFormation GUI

aws cloudformation

January 04, 2019 4 min read

Streamline your SSH Workflow with .ssh/config

Reduce security and operational complexity by managing your SSH key-pairs, usernames and hosts in the config file within your home SSH directory.

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