With ChatGPT or Copilot, you can use very powerful AI assistants thanks to the underlying large language models. The downside is that with the free version, your conversations are used for training purposes. If you want a bit more privacy, it could be a good option to run a large language model locally. We’ll show … Continue reading
There are different kinds of JDKs, each with its own pros and cons. We will walk you through a couple of known JDKs, so you know exactly which one to download under which circumstances. JDK stands for Java Standard Edition Development Kit and is used for programming Java. It is an implementation of the Java … Continue reading
DynamoDB is a NoSQL database from AWS. It can be quite overwhelming when starting with a serverless stack to learn all the DynamoDB concepts and caveats. We’ve put the most important questions and answers for you all in a single article. How does DynamoDB work? DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database. The main concepts in … Continue reading
Python has support for type hinting since version 3.5. That’s quite useful, because it makes your code more predictable since you have more information about what types to expect. In this article we will dive deeper into what type hinting exactly is, how it works and how you can use it in Python 3. With … Continue reading
In september 2021 Java 17 was released. Now, almost one year later, it is about time to upgrade. Java 17 is an LTS release with support until September 2023 and extended support until September 2026, which makes this version ideal for running in a production environment. We will walk you through the most important new … Continue reading
With the AWS CDK you can easily build your infrastructure on AWS as Infrastructure-as-Code. Instead of writing long CloudFormation templates in YML you can write short, to the point code to create an S3 bucket, deploy a Lambda or create a CloudFront distribution. We will walk you through everything you need to know to get … Continue reading