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Automate user-level custom permissions for Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick custom permissions let you enforce least-privilege access by toggling features per user. This post walks through four patterns to automate custom permissions across the user lifecycle: a RegisterUser API parameter, account and role defaults, event-driven Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda automation, and a retroactive batch update script.
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Veradigm warns of patient data breach after ransomware gang claims attack
Healthcare technology company Veradigm disclosed a data breach after a cybersecurity incident at one of its third-party vendors exposed patients' personal data. [...]
Built for agents: Omarchy's pipeline moves to DigitalOcean
Omarchy is a keyboard-first Linux desktop built on Arch and Hyprland by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), and its production pipeline, packaging builds, PR review agents, and QA testing, now run on DigitalOcean. Agent workloads don’t behave like a typical web server. They’re bursty and parallel: an agent spins up, does one job, and shuts down. Omarchy’s pipeline is a real example of that pattern, and DigitalOcean infrastructure complements its needs. A single doctl command can provision a Droplet,
Building async Python applications with Tortoise ORM and Amazon Aurora DSQL
Build a high-concurrency async Python rideshare application with Tortoise ORM and Amazon Aurora DSQL. This post walks through the key adaptations: UUID primary keys, IAM-authenticated asyncpg connections with a connection-pool patch, individual DDL execution, and optimistic concurrency control (OCC) retry logic.
From noise to signal: Monitoring Amazon DocumentDB like a pro
Learn how to build a tiered alerting strategy for Amazon DocumentDB by organizing CloudWatch metrics into Critical, Warning, and Advisory tiers, diagnosing slow queries through three complementary lenses, and monitoring garbage collection health before it becomes a cluster-wide incident.
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