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Speak & It Shall Be Done: Building a Voice Assistant That Actually Works
26 March 2025 | Jesse Millman
A deep dive on setting up Voice Enabled AI workflows with Eleven Labs, n8n, and OpenAI.
How Databricks Apps Are Changing Our Relationship With Information
12 March 2025 | Jesse Millman
This blog post explores the shift from dashboards to interactive applications in the Databricks ecosystem, using a LinkedIn content optimization app as a concrete example of how these new tools transform business workflows and create value.
Chrome-ing to Success: Automate CI/CD for Web Extensions
6 March 2025 | Tui Warihana
Web extension development comes with its own set of challenges—ambiguous documentation, browser quirks, and the risk of deployment headaches. A solid CI/CD pipeline can take the guesswork out of releases, ensuring smooth updates and secure hosting. In this guide, I’ll walk you through automating the process so you can spend less time troubleshooting and more time building.
Securing Load Balancers: A Tale of Two CloudFront Approaches
10 February 2025 | Jesse Millman
As web applications grow in complexity, securing communication between CloudFront and origin servers remains a critical concern. Today, we explore two approaches to this challenge: custom header validation vs Amazon's newly announced CloudFront VPC origins feature. We'll see how this new approach dramatically simplifies origin security while improving your infrastructure's security posture.
A Grad's Review of re:Invent 2024
30 January 2025 | Sophie Giraudo
My 3 top highlights from attending re:Invent 2024 thanks to the AWS All Builders Welcome Grant.
Aurora DSQL: The Future of Serverless Relational Data
22 January 2025 | Jesse Millman
Amazon's newest database offering, Aurora DSQL, makes it easier than ever to build highly performant global applications that need consistent data everywhere. Unlike previous solutions that required complex trade offs between performance and reliability, DSQL lets you write and read data from any location while keeping everything in sync automatically.
Snowflake DevOps - first impressions and comparison with schemachange
13 January 2025 | Maciej Tarsa
An evaluation of Snowflake DevOps tools for managing lifecycle of Snowflake resources compared with schemachange
Getting Dynamic with Snowflake
18 November 2024 | Ben Dang
Exploring Snowflake's Dynamic Tables feature
Byting the dust: siloed approaches to data modelling
7 November 2024 | Donald Wade
Miss out on this year's DataEngBytes conference? FOMO dialled to the max? Fear not. Mechanical Rock's intrepid team of conference-goers went along in person, so you didn't have to. Since its beginnings in 2019, DataEngBytes has established itself as a real highlight of the Australian tech conference calendar, and true to form, it brought some great speakers to Perth this September.
How a Simple Configuration Almost Compromised Our Application.
5 November 2024 | Caio Kaihara
Discover how a single misconfiguration in Amazon CloudFront led to a security vulnerability, exposing user data to potential risk, and the steps we took to resolve it.