Shipping with Claude Code
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in the terminal — and in the right hands it changes how senior teams ship. Here's how we fold it into real enterprise work without losing the plot.
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Field notes on cloud, AI and data from the HeadSoft engineering team.
Designing with Claude
Claude is increasingly good at design, not just code — turning a rough brief into a coherent, on-brand interface. Used well, it compresses the distance between idea and a screen you can react to.
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AI agents that earn their keep
An AI agent that can act on your systems is either a force multiplier or a liability. The difference is scope, permissions and a human in the loop. Here's how we ship agents that do real work safely.
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How to Use AI to Improve WordPress SEO
Want to take your WordPress SEO to the next level? With the help of AI technologies, you can easily elevate your WordPress SEO game. AI SEO tools like Semrush, Divi AI, and Rank Math can help you create high-quality content that search engines love. In this article, we’ll walk you through the steps you need to take to improve WordPress SEO with each of these AI tools.
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3 Best WordPress AI Page Builders in 2023 (Compared)
- AI-Powered Content Generator - Real-Time Text & Image Creation - Unlimited Uses with Subscription
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How to Code in WordPress with AI
In the past, WordPress users without coding knowledge would either spend hours on Google searching for an answer or solicit the help of a professional web developer. With the emergence of…
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WordPress CloudFront Setup for Media Offloaded to Amazon S3
This doc aims to help you start delivering your WordPress Media Library items via Amazon CloudFront as quickly as possible.
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Hosting WordPress on AWS architecture
The Hosting WordPress on AWS reference architecture available on GitHub outlines best practices for deploying WordPress on AWS and includes a set of AWS CloudFormation templates to get you up and…
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SEO - How to Stop Content Decay
What is content decay, and how can you stop it from negatively impacting your SEO and traffic?
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Team workflows with Amplify backend environments
A feature branch deployment consists of a frontend, and (optionally) a backend environment. The frontend is built and deployed to a global content delivery network (CDN), while the backend is…
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Domain Redirection using AWS ELB
How can I redirect one domain to another domain using an Application Load Balancer?
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AWS CodeDeploy and Auto Scaling Integration
AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates application deployments to your fleet of servers. Auto Scaling is a service that lets you dynamically scale your fleet based on load. Although these…
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Running a Mastodon Instance using docker-compose
As well as giving me something new to play around with, the reasons behind this decision included
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AWS Aurora Upgrade
Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. An Aurora DB cluster consists of one or more DB…
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Setting up a CI/CD pipeline by integrating Jenkins with AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy
n this post, I explain how to use the Jenkins open-source automation server to deploy AWS CodeBuild artifacts with AWS CodeDeploy, creating a functioning CI/CD pipeline. When properly implemented,…
Read →AWS Route53 redirect to another domain
I want to redirect internet traffic from my root (apex) domain (for instance, example.com) to another domain (for instance, example.net). How can I do this?
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NoSQL Design for DynamoDB
NoSQL database systems like Amazon DynamoDB use alternative models for data management, such as key-value pairs or document storage. When you switch from a relational database management system to…
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Managing backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps
Web and mobile applications usually interact with a backend service, often via an API. Many front-end applications pass requests for processing, wait for a result, and then display this to the…
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Protect WordPress login using AWS WAF
AWS WAF allows you to create your own set of rules to block most common attacks on Web Applications such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting etc. You need to specify the rules and just…
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AWS Batch and Docker Image
Docker enables you to create highly customized images that are used to execute your jobs. These images allow you to easily share complex applications between teams and even organizations. However,…
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Building a Progressive Web Application (PWA) with Angular Material and AWS Amplify.
https://itnext.io/part-1-building-a-progressive-web-application-pwa-with-angular-material-and-aws-amplify-5c741c957259?
Read →AWS WAF, Shield, Firewall Manager
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to an Amazon API Gateway API, Amazon CloudFront or an Application Load Balancer. AWS WAF…
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AWS API Gateway Lambda Authorizers
A Lambda authorizer (formerly known as a custom authorizer) is an API Gateway feature that uses a Lambda function to control access to your API. A Lambda authorizer is useful if you want to…
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Best Email Marketing Practices with Amazon SES & Sendy
When you start using Amazon SES with Sendy. You get a lot of freedom on sending email newsletter and updates to your subscribers. But, with all these freedom, you need to take of some of the best…
Read →Get High Email Sending Speed with Sendy Email App
- Meet Sendy - Effectively Upload Email List inside Sendy - Use these Free HTML Email Templates for Sendy
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Office 365 vs G-Suite
Office 365 vs G Suite (or, as it used to be known, Google Apps)...which is better? This is a question that many businesses, particularly startups, have a lot of trouble answering. So, in this post…
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Data Science and Machine Learning
Data scientists are the no. 1 most promising job in America for 2019, according to a report from LinkedIn. Hence, this comes as no surprise: Data scientist topped Glassdoor’s list of Best Jobs in…
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Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps are user experiences that have the reach of the web, and are:
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VMware - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Performance
You monitor CPU, memory, disk, network, and storage metrics by using the performance charts located on the Performance tab of the vSphere Client. Use the following guidelines to identify and…
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Bitnami Apache Wordpress Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate
Let's Encrypt is a free Certificate Authority (CA) that issues SSL certificates. You can use these SSL certificates to secure traffic to and from your Bitnami application host. This guide walks…
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Google PageSpeed Insight
Google PageSpeed Insights is a web performance tool created by Google to help you easily identify ways to make your site faster and more mobile-friendly, by following recommendations on best web…
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What is a Document Database?
A document database is designed to store semi-structured data as documents, typically in JSON or XML format. Unlike traditional relational databases, the schema for each non-relational (NoSQL)…
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What is NoSQL?
NoSQL is a term used to describe high-performance, non-relational databases. NoSQL databases utilize a variety of data models, including document, graph, key-value, and columnar. NoSQL databases…
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What is a Columnar Database?
A columnar database is optimized for reading and writing columns of data as opposed to rows of data. Column-oriented storage for database tables is an important factor in analytic query…
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Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers who just need virtual private servers. Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly - a virtual…
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Google Data Studio: quicker and broader access to data
Over the past 6 months we’ve launched over 25 new features in Google Data Studioincluding: making the product free and available globally, adding support for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and providing…
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Google Data Studio Community Connectors
Since the recent developer launch of Data Studio Community Connectors, users have been able to easily connect to and report on data from over 250 new sources. Partners are also now leveraging Data…
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Benefits of Cloud Computing
What exactly is Cloud Computing? At it's core, cloud computing is accessing and storing your information on storage in an external location, rather than locally. In fact, you probably utilize…
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AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a technology for Amazon ECS and EKS\ that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure,…
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Managing the Performance of Cloud Based Applications
Many organizations rely on logging, profilers, and legacy application performance monitoring (APM) solutions to monitor and manage performance in the data center, but these strategies and…
Read →Understanding Application Performance in The Cloud
While proponents believe that the cloud solves all problems, skeptics see nothing beyond large-scale virtualization with all its inherent compromises. Which is correct and what are we to think…
Read →Performance in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is important for the today’s demanding business requirements. The cloud computing concept, with its salient features, and the three Cloud Service delivery models are explained…
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What Is Auto Scaling?
Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application. You create collections of EC2 instances, called Auto…
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Cloud Computing: The Secret to Rapid SMB Growth
For small and medium business owners, growth is essential. In order to keep up with competition, SMBs must be able to grow quickly and inexpensively. However, growth often equates to increased…
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Gartner Magic Quadrant Report
Published: 16 February 2017 ID: G00301340 Analyst(s): Rita L. Sallam, Cindi Howson, Carlie J. Idoine, Thomas W. Oestreich, James Laurence Richardson, Joao Tapadinhas
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Lean Software Development
Lean software development (LSD) is a translation of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production…
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AWS Microservices
Microservices are an architectural and organizational approach to software development where software is composed of small independent services that communicate over well-defined APIs. These…
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A Zero-Administration Amazon Redshift Database Loader
With this new AWS Lambda function, it’s never been easier to get file data into Amazon Redshift. You simply push files into a variety of locations on Amazon S3 and have them automatically loaded…
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Building and Maintaining an Amazon S3 Metadata Index without Servers
Amazon S3 is a simple key-based object store whose scalability and low cost make it ideal for storing large datasets. Its design enables S3 to provide excellent performance for storing and…
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