freddyho.hashnode.devBuild an AI-powered pregnancy food safety web app with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon TextractAI is on everyone’s mind these days as we see it penetrate and change our lives. As an IT professional, what doesn’t change is the constant need to learn new technologies to stay relevant and build innovative solutions. To help myself learn AI using ...Aug 23, 2025·15 min read
freddyho.hashnode.devOffboard GitLab CI/CD long running tasks with AWS Step FunctionsCICD Pipelines with long running tasks are less than ideal CICD pipelines automate the building, testing, packaging, and deployment of your digital projects as they change and take shape. Typically, your CICD pipeline will run every time changes are ...Feb 28, 2025·16 min read
freddyho.hashnode.devHow to securely use secrets in AWS Lambda functions with AWS Lambda PowertoolsAWS Lambda functions are typically the main compute service used in serverless architectures in AWS. You can write your serverless application in your choice of several different supported languages (Python and TypeScript to name a few) and not need ...Dec 19, 2024·10 min read
freddyho.hashnode.devUsing AWS Secrets Manager to rotate a Amazon Cognito user passwordRecently, I have been working on creating automated tests for an API. For testing, a "tester" API user in a Amazon Cognito user pool is used to perform the authorised test API calls. Following good security practices, the tester API user credentials ...Aug 17, 2024·10 min read
freddyho.hashnode.devTravelling overseas with a VPN on AWS on the flyIntroduction Earlier this year I went travelling overseas to a country that performed internet censorship. Knowing this beforehand, I decided to set up my own VPN hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance. With a VPN, I would be able to continue using interne...Apr 16, 2024·13 min read
