Articles filed in category 'Amazon Web Services'

  • Building an Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda
    Your household will never be the same after you get Alexa. Chris shows you how to help her understand your requests by building a small trivia game.
  • Docker for Developers
    Sahil Malik explores the transformative power of Docker as a lightweight containerization tool, emphasizing its benefits for developers navigating complex environments and dependencies. He contrasts Docker's efficiency and portability with traditional virtualization, highlighting its ability to package applications and dependencies into isolated containers that run seamlessly across platforms. Malik demonstrates how Docker simplifies development workflows, enables reliab...See More
  • Hosted Solutions
    Ben Coe gives us tips on planning an engineering project when you’re starting with a blank slate. He starts with hosting options, addresses scaling, and looks at tools like Heroku, Amazon’s Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2), and the Twelve-Factor App Manifesto.
  • Introduction to IoT Using the Raspberry Pi
    Special tools are necessary to make the switch from clunky desktops to fluid mobile apps, and if you want to give your mobile device (or your clients’) access to the Internet of Things (IoT), you need to know about them. Wei-Meng and Clarence have done the hard part of researching it, and they recommend Raspberry Pi.
  • Node.js Best Practices
    You might have heard about Node.js and always wanted to try it. With Ben’s guidance, you can get a simple Node.js app up and running, and learn about some other useful tools as you go.
  • Smartassets.io: Amazon Web Services by Example
    My first experience with AWS was building a prototype for a website called Attachments.me. My friend Jesse Miller and I built the site over several weekends, and hosted it on a single EC2 instance. Two years, dozens of EC2 instances, and hundreds of thousands of users later, we’re still on AWS.