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S1 E1 - Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement

For my next show, coming up this Friday at 3pm ET, you can expect to hang out with me as I wind my way through building a simple generative service using Go and AWS Lambda.

Micah Walter

Micah Walter

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I really enjoyed live streaming for the first time last Friday. It was a h00t! If you weren't able to join live, please check out the recording below. It's long and slow and that is on purpose.

Live streaming was fun, however I hit a few glitches this first time around. Toward the start, I noticed that I wasn't showing anything on my desktop besides the wallpaper. I had thought I was giving you all a tour of a website, but alas, it was just me talking as if I were and you looking at my desktop. I was able to figure it out on the fly during the show by adjusting what was going on in OBS, the software I use to stream. I have almost no clue how OBS works, or what it really does. It seemed pretty simple when I was testing things ahead of the show!

I'll get it. These things take time to sort out if you've never done it before. The show is intentionally slow paced, and probably not much different than if you were sitting next to me at work, except that you can hear my inner monologue.

I also really enjoyed getting back to basics with both Go and AWS Lambda. It's really fun to hear from folks who are brand new to this space, as I often find myself assuming everyone is extremely advanced and knowledgeable. So, I am gonna keep things this way going forward and build up the complexity over time.

For my next show, coming up this Friday at 3pm ET, you can expect to hang out with me as I wind my way through building a simple generative service using Go and AWS Lambda. I'll be introducing making API calls to external services and using the results to generate some text with Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic Claude. It sounds advanced and complicated, but it's not. We are gonna talk about each line of code and eventually discuss how to improve this basic system for use in the real world.

If you'd like to tune in, be sure to bookmark this page and add it to your calendar! I hope to see you there.

-m

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