Every so often, I get those AWS emails announcing upcoming webinars. If you’re like me, you probably scan them, maybe click through, and then forget. But this time, one caught my eye — a 3-hour session focused on Amazon Bedrock. The session was structured into two parts: a set of lectures and then a hands-on […]
In a previous post (here) I spoke about starting to mess around with n8n. Well, a few weeks in things are gaining traction for me here – there are so many small issues I think we can attack at work, and that’s what we’re doing. Starting small to prove out the platform, how we want
I’ve spent most of my career in software development leadership — as a manager, director, and senior leader who loves staying close to the code. Whether volunteering for on-call rotations or diving into complex systems like our ETL pipeline built with Spotify’s Luigi framework (Python), I’ve always enjoyed hands-on tech work. My main responsibility was
Over the past couple of years I’ve done a lot of work with orchestration layers – maybe that’s a bad term, but the general idea: Some event happens -> Collect needed data -> Move data to a new system -> Do something A thousand years (it feels like it) this fell under the umbrella of
I am a huge Udemy fan – I am now on my 72 week of my current streak (but have used it for years), so I was pretty excited to see Wake County, NC is offering a free Udemy Business account to library card holders! https://www.wake.gov/news/wake-county-launches-free-online-learning-platform-library-cardholders This is a subset of what you can get
Over the past year or so I’ve become quite comfortable working some deeper things with my friends at work with respect to Zoho CRM and the things we want to pull off with Zoho Flow, CRM Functions, webhooks, etc. We’ve also got homegrown back office processes, and tried Workato and Zapier (two platforms that are
As I’ve started to dust off the python code one my sons and I were working on, I found another project we had made together based on a lab in “Coding for Beginners Using Python” from Usborne. This game was a bit different from our text dungeon. As I recall this book had you do
