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How this CTO built a business that sells millions of dollars a day with the help of Schematical
Today, I am honored to present to you one of my happy customers, Ben Raboine, CTO of Enthusiast Enterprises
At some point, you likely have seen vehicles proudly displaying the logo of one of the brands he and his team created.
I was lucky enough to get a call from Ben back in 2016 when they were still a tiny startup and have been a part of the ride ever since helping to ensure their server infrastructure scales up in a cost-effective and secure manner.
It’s been an amazing journey so far, but it's not over yet.
Please enjoy this short video of Ben talking about his experience working with me over the years.
Do you have data in #AWS S3 buckets you want to put to work training AI models or doing large scale business intelligence?
If so, you will want to check out S3 annotations. It basically allows you to store rich metadata directly attached to the S3 object.
This gets rid of the need to design a separate complex database that associates rich information with S3 paths.
It all comes out of the box with the ability to crawl it with AWS Athena, which, while being an extremely powerful Data Lake tool on its own, also allows you to connect the various tools from Quick Suite.
I could see this leading to some pretty powerful outcomes. For example, if you had a classified data set of specialty images, you could easily train a model to classify or generate more images like these.
The only drawback I see is that you have a bit of vendor lock-in as there likely is not a great way to export these annotations quickly.
Do the positives outweigh the negatives? What use cases do you see for S3 annotations?
Looking to scan your codebase for security vulnerabilities before each deploy?
These AI security agents are all the rage right now, and AWS was not about to stand on the sidelines while others made a profit on it.
Allow me to introduce you to AWS Continuum.
Continuum takes a holistic approach to securing every part of your software development lifecycle.
It pulled in AWS Security Agent, which is AWS’s main agentic security offering.
With cybercrime on the rise, there is no excuse for the humans writing the code to abdicate info sec, but it never hurts to have a little help when trying to keep up with the breakneck pace of technology today.
With that said, if you or your team want to sharpen your AWS security skills checkout my On Demand Video Course on @OReillyMedia - Zero to Hero on AWS Security: An Animated Guide to Security in the Cloud.
Starting to make "Biomes" for what your office is in my game "TechDebt".
The idea is that you start out in a Garage then work your way up to nicer and nicer offices. Each expanding with various extra slots for NPCs, quest givers, and other objects that give bonuses.
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