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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.8 Understanding Context
Dec 8, 2024 | 8 minute read

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.7 Generating better prompts
Dec 7, 2024 | 7 minute read

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.6 Exploring Use Cases
Dec 6, 2024 | 11 minute read

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.5 Break down large problems
Dec 5, 2024 | 6 minute read

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.4 No AWS account needed
Dec 4, 2024 | 4 minute read

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.3 Enable Amazon Q Developer Workspace Index
Dec 3, 2024 | 8 minute read

In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips here.
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Amazon Q Developer Tips: No.2 IDE Layout
Dec 2, 2024 | 3 minute read

In the previous post I shared the importance of forming daily habits to help you discover your own flow when working with AI coding assistants like Amazon Q Developer. I also shared the first tip - make sure you keep your Amazon Q Developer plugin auto updated. In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey.
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Daily Tips to supercharge your Amazon Q Developer experience
Dec 1, 2024 | 2 minute read

The importance of building muscle memory When I talk to developers about the use of AI coding assistants, one of the key takeaways is that daily habits are one of the most effective tools in helping to build muscle memory and explore new possibilities that these tools provide. To help folk with this, over the next few weeks I am going to share daily hints and tips that I have found useful and made my use of Amazon Q Developer more effective.
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AWS open source newsletter #205
Nov 30, 2024 | 26 minute read

Welcome to issue #205 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. This will be the last edition of 2024, but looking forward to coming back in 2025 with more great open source project and content. As always, we have more great new projects to check out, which include a project that simplifies how you manage complex Kubernetes resource configurations, a library to accelerate open source analytics using Amazon S3, a look at a GraphRAG project, a project that helps NodeJS developers make it easier to make use of some advanced Amazon Aurora capabilities, an ESLinting tool for AWS CDK, and more.
- oss-newsletter
- aws open source
- AWS CDK
- Amazon EKS
- Kubernetes
- Apache Iceberg
- Dapr
- Lustre
- kro
- Projen
- ComfyUI
- Finch
- Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework
- OCSF
- PostgreSQL
- Amazon EMR
- Apache Cassandra
- MySQL
- HBase
- AWS Amplify
- Apache XTable
- Mountpoint for Amazon S3
- Valkey
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- Bottlerocket
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Flink
AWS open source newsletter #204
Oct 22, 2024 | 25 minute read

Edition #204 Welcome to issue #204 of the AWS open source newsletter, the newsletter where we try and provide you the best open source on AWS content. Apologies for the long wait since the last edition, I will have to do better. Thanks for the lovely messages and feedback I have received over the past few weeks, this edition is for you! As always, we have more great new projects to check out, which include projects that surface up your AWS costs in Home Assistant, a tool that you can use to ask questions about your code base that uses generative AI, a git large file storage (LFS) extension that lets you use Amazon S3, and a handy network cost calculator.
- oss-newsletter
- aws open source
- Home Assistant
- Godot
- Valkey
- Keycloak
- Apache Airflow
- MWAA
- PostgreSQL
- deequ
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
- OTEL
- Grafana
- Spring Boot
- Amazon Corretto
- ROSA
- OpenShift
- Kubecost
- Amazon Linux 2023
- Karpenter
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Apache Flink
- Apache Kafka
- OpenZFS
- InfluxDB
- AWS Parallel Cluster
- Lustre
- Prometheus
- Finch
- Ubuntu
- Cedar

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