A few weeks ago, I wrote about a project our team has been working on called Distill. A simple application that summarizes and extracts important details from our daily meetings. At the end of that post, I promised you a CLI version written in Rust. After a few code reviews from Rustaceans at Amazon and […]

Connecting IoT devices to the cloud offers significant advantages, primarily in scalability and data management. The cloud provides a flexible platform that can easily scale to accommodate the vast amount of data generated by IoT devices, without requiring substantial upfront investment in physical infrastructure. This ensures that IoT applications can grow and evolve over time, […]

Last week, my alma mater Standard Bank Group (SBG) hosted a Software Engineering Conference and invited me to be one of the keynote speakers. SBG has presence throughout Africa and this hybrid conference was attended by almost 2,000 engineers from across the continent. It was amazing to reconnect with long-time friends and former colleagues, and […]

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the standard integrated development environment (IDE) for SQL Server professionals, developed, maintained, and supported by Microsoft. Whenever the developers of SSMS enhance the platform, we, as users, embrace these innovations and share updates with one another. The latest version of SSMS was released less than two months ago. Let’s […]

Microcontroller units (MCUs) and microprocessor units (MPUs) are two kinds of integrated circuits that, while similar in certain ways, are very different in many others. Replacing antiquated multi-component central processing units (CPUs) with separate logic units, these single-chip processors are both extremely valuable in the continued development of computing technology. However, microcontrollers and microprocessors differ […]

With 109 million customers and counting, “uncarrier” T-Mobile is one of the top mobile communications providers in the U.S. The company always puts the customer first, which it achieves by delivering the right experiences and content to the right customers at the right time. But with different sub-brands and business units, T-Mobile’s marketing and content […]

AI has affected several disciplines in an immense way, but one of the most significant areas it has influenced is the creation of conversational agents. These agents, also known as chatbots or virtual assistants, are no longer limited to their script or very restrictive patterns of communication. Instead, they are capable of interactions on many […]

Today, we’re announcing that a new AWS Region will be coming to Taiwan by early 2025. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, and will give AWS customers in Taiwan the ability to run workloads and store data that must remain in Taiwan. Each of the Availability […]

Sometimes I hear from tech leads that they would like to improve visibility and governance over their generative artificial intelligence applications. How do you monitor and govern the usage and generation of data to address issues regarding security, resilience, privacy, and accuracy or to validate against best practices of responsible AI, among other things? Beyond […]

Today, I am happy to announce in preview the generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered natural language query generation in AWS CloudTrail Lake, which is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing AWS CloudTrail activity logs to meet compliance, security, and operational needs. You can ask a question using natural language about these […]