The Business Compass LLC Podcasts

Integrating AWS Lambda with SQS: A Blueprint for Scalable Web Service Design

Integrating AWS Lambda with SQS: A Blueprint for Scalable Web Service Design
 
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Scalability, fault tolerance, and decoupled architectures are the cornerstones of robust design in cloud-native applications. AWS Lambda and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) form a powerful duo that enables developers to build scalable, event-driven web services without managing infrastructure. This podcast outlines the architecture, use cases, setup, and optimization strategies for integrating Lambda with SQS.

AWS Lambda Data Masking Made Easy with Powertools for Python

AWS Lambda Data Masking Made Easy with Powertools for Python
 
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As businesses move towards serverless architectures to gain scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, data privacy becomes an essential concern—especially in regulated industries. AWS Lambda, combined with AWS Powertools for Python, offers an elegant solution to implement data masking at the function level. This podcast walks you through how to simplify and scale data masking for sensitive information using Powertools utilities.

Beyond Big Data: The Rise of Universal Analytics for Small Data Sets

Beyond Big Data: The Rise of Universal Analytics for Small Data Sets
 
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For years, the analytics world has been enamored with Big Data — massive volumes of information harvested from web traffic, IoT devices, social media platforms, and more. But a quiet revolution is underway. Universal analytics tools — traditionally designed for big data processing — are now being adapted and optimized for small data sets, enabling small businesses, researchers, and lean startups to make informed decisions without the infrastructure of a data giant.

Testing Amazon Bedrock with Python: A Guide to Unit Testing GenAI Applications

Testing Amazon Bedrock with Python: A Guide to Unit Testing GenAI Applications
 
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As generative AI (GenAI) applications become central to modern software stacks, ensuring their reliability through robust unit testing is more important than ever. Amazon Bedrock, AWS's managed service for foundation models (FMs) from providers like Anthropic, AI21, Cohere, Meta, and Stability AI, allows developers to build scalable GenAI applications without managing infrastructure. However, testing these applications presents unique challenges — such as handling non-deterministic outputs and API dependencies.
In this podcast, we’ll walk you through strategies and practical examples for unit testing GenAI-powered applications built with Amazon Bedrock and Python.

Securing LLM Applications: A Guide to Safe, Ethical, and Robust AI Deployment

Securing LLM Applications: A Guide to Safe, Ethical, and Robust AI Deployment
 
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Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Claude have revolutionized industries by enabling intelligent automation, natural language understanding, and scalable content generation. However, as these models become deeply integrated into business processes and public-facing applications, security, ethical usage, and robustness have become paramount concerns. This podcast provides a comprehensive overview of best practices for deploying LLM applications in a secure, ethical, and resilient way.

AWS EBS Volume Setup: From Attachment to Mounting on EC2 Made Simple

AWS EBS Volume Setup: From Attachment to Mounting on EC2 Made Simple
 
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for Amazon EC2. Whether you're a developer deploying scalable applications or a DevOps engineer managing cloud infrastructure, understanding how to attach and mount EBS volumes is essential. This podcast simplifies the entire process—from creating and attaching an EBS volume to mounting it on an EC2 instance.

AWS Migration Meets DevSecOps: A Step-by-Step Guide with Open Source Security Scanners

AWS Migration Meets DevSecOps: A Step-by-Step Guide with Open Source Security Scanners
 
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Migrating workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a significant milestone for businesses seeking scalability, efficiency, and innovation. However, a successful migration is not just about shifting workloads but embedding security at every phase. This is where DevSecOps comes into play, blending development, security, and operations into a unified, automated workflow.
In this podcast, we explore how to migrate to AWS securely using a DevSecOps approach, incorporating open-source security scanners at each step of your CI/CD pipeline.

AWS Zero Trust Architecture: How to Build a Secure, Identity-Centric Network

AWS Zero Trust Architecture: How to Build a Secure, Identity-Centric Network
 
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In today’s cloud-native world, perimeter-based security is no longer sufficient. As enterprise networks expand with remote workforces, SaaS applications, and multi-cloud environments, attackers are finding new vectors to exploit. This evolving threat landscape demands a more robust security model — one that assumes no implicit trust. Enter Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA), a security paradigm that AWS has deeply integrated into its services.

Building Secure Networks with Amazon VPC: A Complete Architecture Walkthrough

Building Secure Networks with Amazon VPC: A Complete Architecture Walkthrough
 
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. It gives you full control over your network setup

Event-Driven Architecture with AWS Lambda and S3: A Complete Guide

Event-Driven Architecture with AWS Lambda and S3: A Complete Guide
 
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In today’s cloud-native ecosystem, event-driven architecture (EDA) is critical in building scalable, decoupled, and highly responsive systems. AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 are among the most powerful tools for implementing EDA on AWS. This podcast walks you through how to build an event-driven architecture using S3 as the event source and Lambda as the event handler.