Notes: Getting Started with AWS IoT Services

(Illustration: Before setting up the Raspberry Pi, let’s have a raspberry cake and relax:p Image source: Photo by Josselyn Solorzano on Unsplash)

Notes taking about the video Getting Started with AWS IoT Services presented by Kevin Tinn and hosted by AWS Meetup Group (Denver) on August 5, 2020. (The meetup event page is here. The slide is here.)

Agenda

  • Overview of IoT Services
    • IoT Core
    • Greengrass
    • IoT Analytics
  • Raspberry Pi Setup
  • Demo: Communicating Directly with IoT Core
  • Connecting to cloud-based Data Pipeline
  • Configure Greengrass
  • Q&A

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Environment Preparation for AWS CDK Pull Request

(Illustration: The chef on the yacht is preparing salads for the guests one by one. In the process of preparing the environment required for CDK PR, we need to yarn build each package one by one. Image source: by wreindl.)

While watching Pahud’s video EP27 - (English)Create Your First AWS CDK Pull Request(4K 2160p) take notes for future use. The environment I am using when I take this notes is: macOS Catalina (10.15.6), installed with homebrew, zsh, nvm, docker.

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Note: Influence: Chapter 5-6

(Illustration: Antelope Canyon in Northern Arizona. The reflective surfaces on the canyon walls make it difficult for cameras to get a good exposure. Is there a connection to human psychology? Photo by Daniel Seßler on Unsplash)

This year, I enthusiastically joined the B2B book club organized by Digital Marketing Connect (DMC) to continue expanding my learning field. (The last time I seriously read a marketing book was probably Philip Kotler’s Management Marketing during the remote reading club with Bob in college.)

Recently, Arizona has been a hot keyword due to tsmc’s (then rumored to be lowercase “t”) plans to establish a manufacturing plant there. Coincidentally, the selected book for the first few months of the book club is <Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion> by Dr. Robert B. Cialdini from Arizona State University, published in 1984. It seems to have had a significant influence on the marketing field for more than thirty years and is often cited as a reference in marketing-related materials (but it is also possible that I started looking for related information from this book).

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Notes: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology

(Context: Wherever we walk, you will leave traces, would we leave some sort of traces after nearby contact? Image source.)

Apple and Google jointly published a press release about: “Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology” on April 10, 2020. Also provide APIs of both Apple iOS and Google Android platforms, and corresponding technical documents: Contact Tracing Bluetooth SpecificationContact Tracing Cryptography Specification.

I guess there could be some Flutter plugins based on it very soon. :)

This is a personal reading notes. I would like to start with privacy and Bluetooth specification documents. I want to learn and practice how to plan and organize such kind of solution architecture to resolve some challenges in the future.

The content of this reading notes will include my personal observation and comments. The purpose of taking notes is to improve my learning efficiency and keep the habit of sharing.

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AWS re:Invent 2019 New Launch Feature Amazon ECS Cluster Capacity Providers

Introduction

It has been a long time that have a new feature for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)! This time, there is a great new feature named Amazon ECS Cluster Capacity Providers. This post will share the session of CON312 [NEW LAUNCH!] Automatic cluster scaling with Amazon ECS of AWS re:Invent 2019.

Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service. Amazon uses Amazon ECS for their couple products and services. At the mean time, Duolingo, Samsung, GE, and Cook Pad are also Amazon ECS users.

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