James MatsonBuilding a High Performing Engineering Team When You’re Not Big TechMany smaller organisations don’t have the scale, resources or capital of a Meta, Amazon or Netflix in order to implement the ‘big tech’…Aug 1816Aug 1816
James MatsonEnough with the Gen AI alreadyAlong with amazing artwork, semi-respectable unit tests and terrifying videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti, Gen AI is also creating a…Aug 3Aug 3
James MatsonComplex Event Filtering with AWS EventBridge Pipes, Rules and No Custom Code.Harnessing the power of native AWS services to create a seamless event-driven architecture for a real world use case.May 21May 21
James MatsoninAI AdvancesWhat Is a Neural Net, Anyway?The world is awash with neurons and neural nets these days, but what exactly are they and how do they work? A guide for people who — like…Apr 52Apr 52
James MatsoninAI AdvancesBuilding a Gen AI chatbot in 2 hours with AWS Bedrock & Knowledge BaseIt’s been clear for a while now that one of the best use cases for generative AI in business is to harness an LLM backed chatbot to provide…Mar 28Mar 28
James MatsoninAI AdvancesMigrating data from AWS RedShift to Google BigQuery via S3If migrating data on the cloud is sorcery, then you’re going want these spells in your grimoire…Mar 23Mar 23
James MatsonBringing your on-premises retail infrastructure to the cloud with Azure ArcAzure Arc is one of the best answers available to the question ‘how do I get my retail store servers and IT equipment to leverage the power…Feb 291Feb 291
James Matson☁️Why FaaS is a better choice than KubernetesRather than being caught up in the fervor of nodes, pods and control planes, more often than not I reach for serverless technologies like…Feb 1815Feb 1815
James MatsonRunning AWS DynamoDb locallyWhat’s better than running the powerful noSQL AWS DynamoDb for your apps? Running it on your desktop, that’s what!Feb 81Feb 81
James MatsonBuilding a Q-table Reinforement Learning Agent with Captain PicardIs it possible to combine reinforcement learning via q-tables with a crazy quest for Captain Jean-Luc Picard to find all the earl grey tea…Jan 3Jan 3