Category: Technical How-to

Introduction Developers working with AWS find AWS Elastic Beanstalk to be an invaluable service that makes it straightforward to deploy and run web applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. You simply upload your application code, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring, which allows you to […]

Infrastructure alerts pose a challenge for DevOps teams, particularly when they occur outside of regular business hours. The complexity isn’t merely in receiving notifications, it lies in rapidly assessing their severity and determining the root cause. This challenge is compounded when upstream service disruptions cascade into multiple downstream alerts, creating a confusion of notifications that […]

Introduction ArgoCD is a leading GitOps tool that empowers teams to manage Kubernetes deployments declaratively, using Git as the single source of truth. Its robust feature set, including automated sync, rollback support, drift detection, advanced deployment strategies, RBAC integration, and multi-cluster support, makes it a go-to solution for Kubernetes application delivery. However, as organizations scale, […]

Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative AI–powered assistant for software development, helping developers perform complex workflows. Amazon Q Developer command-line interface (CLI) combines conversational AI with direct access to AWS services, helping you understand, build, and operate applications more effectively. The Amazon Q Developer CLI executes commands, analyzes outputs, and provides contextual recommendations […]

 Overview Customers adopting Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered coding companion, often need authentication through existing identity providers like PingIdentity. By leveraging AWS IAM Identity Center, organizations can enable their developers to access Amazon Q Developer with their existing PingIdentity credentials, streamlining authentication and removing the need for separate login procedures. Amazon Q Developer can […]

In the ever-evolving landscape of Java development, keeping applications up-to-date while minimizing risk has become increasingly challenging. Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities now support customization of Java upgrades in Java upgrade transformation CLI (command line interface) with a new selective transformation feature. Selective transformation empowers development teams with greater control over their modernization journey. Instead […]

As organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered tools to enhance developer productivity, your ability to effectively communicate with these assistants becomes a valuable skill. This guide explores how you can craft prompts that deliver accurate, useful results when working with Amazon Q Developer. Your success with Amazon Q Developer depends directly on how well you communicate with […]

In the fast-paced world of software development, maintaining comprehensive documentation often falls to the bottom of priority lists in favor of delivering functionality. Amazon Q Developer’s /doc agent changes this equation by automating README generation and updates. With this tool, the variable of time spent producing documentation is reduced to the point that it’s no longer […]

In today’s rapidly evolving software landscape, maintaining and modernizing Java applications is a critical challenge for many organizations. As new Java versions are released and best practices evolve, the need for efficient code transformation becomes increasingly important. Amazon Q Developer transformation for Java using the Command Line Interface (CLI) presents a powerful alternative to integrated […]

As organizations modernize their database infrastructure, migrating from systems like Oracle to open source solutions such as PostgreSQL is becoming increasingly common. However, this transition presents a significant challenge: discovering and converting embedded SQL within existing Java applications to ensure compatibility with the new database system. Manual conversion of this code is time-consuming, error-prone, and […]