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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