Running a Telegram bot on AWS Lambda
Telegram is a common messaging application, with over 500 million users. I've been using it daily since 2015, and I prefer it over WhatsApp due to many reasons: native PC/Mac applications (and
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Working with different git branches
This is more of a note to my future self. I was working on an wiki, hosted on MkDocs, that you contribute via making changes and pushing to GitLab. The process to submit
How South Africa’s need for energy efficiency can lead us to cloud computing
Cloud computing is not a new concept. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the first to offer cloud services when it launched its Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) storage service in 2006. Gartner estimates
IaC or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AWS (sic)
Lets say you building something in AWS. A typical architecture - perhaps a 3-tier web-app: Load-balancer, app, and database. Maybe you want to use a container platform to run the app, so you
The Most Under-Appreciated AWS Service
I knew this was gonna be a tough ask: to identify the most under-appreciated AWS, and to expound why that is. Tough for a few reasons I think, mostly because we can’t
Keeping active
2021Total Active Days: 98 (up by 11 days) Total Time: 30 hours (up 1 hour) Total distance: 420km (up 120 hours) 2020These are my Strava stats for 2020: Summary of 2020: 87 total