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Author: Shameel Ahmed

I am a seasoned technology professional with expertise in building enterprise applications and services using cutting edge technologies. Database expert and a proponent of Lean Architecture and Lean Development, Code reuse champion and an Automation Expert.
How to build a REST API using Amazon API Gateway to invoke OpenAI APIs

How to build a REST API using Amazon API Gateway to invoke OpenAI APIs

Shameel Ahmed
March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 No Comments

This article will take you through the step-by-step process to build a REST API using API Gateway. The API invokes a Lambda function that in turn invokes OpenAI APIs and returns a response. Your applications can invoke this API to embed Artificial Intelligence capabilities similar to ChatGPT.

How to fix “‘StreamingBody’ object is not subscriptable” in AWS Lambda boto3

Shameel Ahmed
February 12, 2023February 12, 2023 No Comments

Learn how to fix “‘StreamingBody’ object is not subscriptable” error in boto3 framework when invoking functions in AWS Lambda.

How to invoke OpenAI APIs from AWS Lambda functions

How to invoke OpenAI APIs from AWS Lambda functions

Shameel Ahmed
February 5, 2023February 18, 2023 14 Comments

OpenAI provides APIs to programmatically access the functionalities provided by ChatGPT, which allows you to integrate AI capabilities into your applications and services. This article provides a step-by-step guide to setting up the environment and invoke OpenAI APIs from your AWS Lambda functions.

Developer to Architect Series (Red Hat Enable Architect)

Developer to Architect Series (Red Hat Enable Architect)

Shameel Ahmed
January 16, 2023February 21, 2023 No Comments

If you are a developer planning to becoming an architect, then this series of articles will help you learn everything that you need to succeed in your new role.

Can ChatGPT replace Google Search?

Can ChatGPT replace Google Search?

Shameel Ahmed
January 11, 2023January 13, 2023 No Comments

Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, there is so much hype about its insane capabilities and the apprehension that it may ultimately replace Google Search one day. Let’s find out how much of this is true.

Learn Python with ChatGPT

Learn Python with ChatGPT

Shameel Ahmed
December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 7 Comments

ChatGPT is a conversational bot launched by OpenAI in November 2022 as a prototype for beta testing and feedback. Among the many things it can do, it can teach you programming languages. This article explores how the conversational nature of ChatGPT can be leveraged to learn Python.

Book: Migrate your SQL Server Workloads to PostgreSQL: Quick Reference – Second Edition

Book: Migrate your SQL Server Workloads to PostgreSQL: Quick Reference – Second Edition

Shameel Ahmed
October 18, 2022October 22, 2022 1 Comment

The First Edition of this book was released in May 2020, about two and a half years ago. Since its…

Increase Visual Studio Code Terminal Buffer Size

Increase Visual Studio Code Terminal Buffer Size

Shameel Ahmed
July 14, 2022July 14, 2022 No Comments

Find yourself printing a lot to the Terminal during development and surprised to find your output missing? Read on…

How to fix Redis Error “ERR DEBUG command not allowed.”

How to fix Redis Error “ERR DEBUG command not allowed.”

Shameel Ahmed
July 4, 2022July 5, 2022 No Comments

While developing apps using Redis, if you are trying to use the command DEBUG and Redis throws the error “ERR DEBUG command not allowed.”, here’s how you fix it.

Cross Region Lambda invocation in AWS

Shameel Ahmed
February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 No Comments

AWS Lambda makes it easy to build highly available serverless applications quickly. However, setting up resources in multiple regions makes…

Re:Link for Mac is here!!!

Re:Link for Mac is here!!!

Shameel Ahmed
November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 No Comments

Re:Link for Mac is a Browser, except that it doesn’t open any website; instead, it redirects the request to other installed browsers in the system based on customizable rules.

Re:Link, the Browser Bootstrapper

Re:Link, the Browser Bootstrapper

Shameel Ahmed
July 12, 2021July 19, 2021 No Comments

Re:Link is a Windows application that registers itself as a browser in your machine, intercepts your URL requests and link clicks, and open them in different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.) based on a set of predefined rules.

Migrate MySQL table data to MongoDB collections using Python

Migrate MySQL table data to MongoDB collections using Python

Shameel Ahmed
June 18, 2021June 25, 2021 1 Comment

MySQL is an RDBMS platform that stores data in a tabular format in a normalized manner, whereas, MongoDB is a NoSQL database that stores information in the form of documents that are grouped under collections. The representation of data is completely different and hence migration of MySQL table data to MongoDB collections might sound like a mammoth task. Fortunately, Python makes it a breeze with its strong connectivity and data handling capabilities.

Book Review: Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Book Review: Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Shameel Ahmed
September 14, 2020October 22, 2022 No Comments

The book talks about challenges we face at work while dealing with people; like Conflict Resolution, Stressful conversations, Mean colleagues, Passive-Aggressive behavior, Handling stressed-out and demanding colleagues, Managing bosses, etc. Well researched, practical, tried and tested tips on how to handle colleagues and bosses and how to fix the problem are discussed.

MYSWP – Book Links

Shameel Ahmed
May 25, 2020January 3, 2021 Comments Off on MYSWP – Book Links

Book: Migrating your SQL Server Workloads to PostgreSQL

Book: Migrating your SQL Server Workloads to PostgreSQL

Shameel Ahmed
May 5, 2020October 22, 2022 No Comments

Are you looking for resources to get started with migrating SQL Server Databases to PostgreSQL? This is the book for you. This concise eBook is intended to be a ready reference and a checklist for migrating your databases, applications and services from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL and discusses all the important information you need to be aware of before beginning a migration project.

Minimize Non-Critical Database Workload costs in AWS

Shameel Ahmed
April 23, 2020April 24, 2020 4 Comments

One of the major challenges in Cloud is controlling costs effectively. This article discusses various strategies you can adopt to set up and operate non-critical workloads of your databases with minimal cost.

C# 8 New Features

Shameel Ahmed
October 8, 2019October 11, 2019 2 Comments

C# 8 comes with a host of changes and language improvements that make it more interesting than ever to write code in the world’s most popular programming language. This article describes the most important new features and enhancements to the language.

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

New Features and Enhancements in .NET Core 3.0

Shameel Ahmed
September 25, 2019October 8, 2019 1 Comment

.NET Core 3.0, with a significant number of changes and improvements, was released on 23rd September 2019. The most important changes are discussed in this article.

Generated Columns in PostgreSQL

Shameel Ahmed
September 18, 2019April 18, 2021 No Comments

This article describes different ways of setting up generated (computed) columns in different versions of PostgreSQL.

PostgreSQL 12: New Features and Enhancements

PostgreSQL 12: New Features and Enhancements

Shameel Ahmed
September 16, 2019September 21, 2019 No Comments

This article walks you through the summary of most important new features. enhancements and breaking changes in PostgreSQL 12.

PostgreSQL finally gets Stored Procedures

PostgreSQL finally gets Stored Procedures

Shameel Ahmed
September 12, 2019September 21, 2019 No Comments

This article describes the new Stored Procedure feature in PostgreSQL 11.5 and shows you how it differs from Functions.

Check PostgreSQL Edition

Check PostgreSQL Edition

Shameel Ahmed
July 29, 2019September 21, 2019 No Comments

This post explains a neat way to check if your are running on open source PostgreSQL or AWS Aurora (PostgreSQL compatible)

Restrict access to SQL Server Data using a Facade Database

Restrict access to SQL Server Data using a Facade Database

Shameel Ahmed
July 25, 2019September 21, 2019 No Comments

This article describes a simple and elegant way to allow write access to ASP.NET apps to the App_Data folder. This is required for applications to work properly when deployed in AWS Beanstalk.

DbStudio (beta) Launched

DbStudio (beta) Launched

Shameel Ahmed
May 12, 2018September 21, 2019 No Comments

DbStudio is a Database access tool that enables you to connect to a wide variety of databases. It is designed…

Browser Selector – A simple windows app to associate different urls to different browsers

Browser Selector – A simple windows app to associate different urls to different browsers

Shameel Ahmed
September 8, 2017September 21, 2019 2 Comments

This article introduces you to BrowserSelector, an open source app that acts like a bootstrap to associate urls to different browsers installed on your machine,

Granting write access to ASP.NET apps hosted on AWS Beanstalk

Granting write access to ASP.NET apps hosted on AWS Beanstalk

Shameel Ahmed
April 28, 2017September 21, 2019 No Comments

This article describes a simple and elegant way to allow write access to ASP.NET apps to the App_Data folder. This is required for applications to work properly when deployed in AWS Beanstalk.

Windows Phone 8.1 Review

Windows Phone 8.1 Review

Shameel Ahmed
April 21, 2014September 21, 2019 No Comments

Windows Phone 8.1 was released on 14th April 2014 and has significant new features and performance improvements. Despite the huge…

MultiDropDown v2: A Multiple Selection Dropdown Control for ASP.NET

MultiDropDown v2: A Multiple Selection Dropdown Control for ASP.NET

Shameel Ahmed
August 9, 2011April 18, 2021 No Comments

Introduction The stock DropDown control that comes with ASP.NET allows us to select only one item. To overcome this limitation,…

Back to Basics: String type in .NET

Shameel Ahmed
June 14, 2009September 21, 2019 No Comments

System.String is one of the few classes in the .NET Framework Base Class Library that is given special treatment by the CLR. …

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