Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts about AWS! Throughout this series, I’ll be covering various AWS topics as I prepare for the AWS Solutions Architect exam. I thought what better place to start than with one of the most fundamental steps when beginning with AWS: creating an account. In this post, I’ll discuss the root user that’s created with your AWS account and how it differs from IAM users. ...

Recently I was tinkering around with creating a Chrome extension. Not having a lot of experience with this, I did what the cool kids these days are doing: I decided to use ChatGPT for helping me write code. And don’t get me wrong, ChatGPT (or other AI tools for that matter) does a decent job of helping you create things and spot bugs. But it’s a gun that can easily backfire if you don’t know what you’re doing with it. This blog is going to be about one such incident that happened to me when working on this project. ...

If you’re developing or thinking of creating an app that leverages the OpenAI API but don’t want to put down your credit card until you’re sure you have something, I have good news for you. In this article I’m going to show you how you can create a backend API which is compatiable with the OpenAI API. However, when running this API locally during development, we will use the Llama3 model running locally on your laptop. When you want to use this in production, all you need to do is change the environment variables, and everything else will remain the same :) ...

I’ve been creating technical content for quite some time now. Initially it was just a hobby - I just liked learning new things and talking about it. Then I started doing it as part of my work as well. When I joined my current company we were still a pretty early stage startup so a lot of our focus was mostly on execution. We would brainstorm ideas and areas we wanted to talk about and then I would write technical blogs, record tutorials and create other content around them. The main goal was just putting our name out there. ...

I’ve been working at Okteto for over two years now. My job title officially is Developer Experience (DevX) Engineer. I’ve been asked more times than I can count what it means and what my role involves. I think after two years, I finally have enough understanding to write about it in detail :) How It Began I’ll be completely honest - when I had joined the company, I didn’t fully know what I was signing up for. I had initially joined thinking I would be doing technical writing - blogs, documentation, and a bit of traditional DevRel stuff - conference talks, webinars, etc. I was excited for both these things so I said yes! ...