How I make the most of ChatGPT’s bilateral-audio capabilities I go in and out of phases where I try to advance as a Spanish speaker. Sometimes there just isn’t time. My wife’s parents only speak Spanish, so every year about this time (leading up to Christmas, when I see them)…

Use case Suppose a company only uses its dev instances certain hours, and a way to easily shut them down in off hours would be ideal. One way is to do so programmatically is with Boto3. That’s the subject of this article. Creating the instances to start I don’t have instances organized by tag, so I will…

I’ve started learning Python, and I enjoy that it is much more a skill than a set of facts to remember. With Level Up In Tech, I’ve been practicing daily with the fundamental tools in Python. My LUIT Python coach regularly compares programming to lifting weights. Having been a “fitness…

Overview For this project, we’re to explore a DynamoDB solution for a media production-and-distribution that company needs to manage an track their content. …

The Scenario For this scenario, Level Up Bank wants to continue migrating to the cloud for the following benefits: (1) rapid scaling for changes in customer demand, (2) reliability with high availability, (3) security features, (4) changing capital expenses for variable expenses, and (5) the ability to quickly create new instances, experiment…

LUIT Project 4 Overview Before this week in Level Up in Tech (LUIT), our experience with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) was limited to using them to launch EC2 instances. In the second project, the fictitious Level Up Bank needed an Apache website on a CentOS instance. For this project, Level Up…

Overview This week’s task was to set up three directories (Analytics, Operations, and Development) for Level Up Bank, with each directory containing some files. Essentially, these would be private workspaces for their corresponding groups (Data_Analysts, Operations, and Developers). …

Overview In the first project for Level Up in Tech (LUIT), I launched a static website using Amazon S3. Using S3 was the efficient option because it avoided EC2 instance costs and management, and also because an S3 bucket could act as a web server given the content didn’t need to…

Deploying a Static Website on S3 — This is a ten-step guide for easily using S3 to host a static website. I will illustrate these steps with a few screenshots from launching a website for the (fictitious) Level Up Bank. Requisite AWS Vocab In case you’re new to AWS, here are the terms you’ll need to follow along. …