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Adding Semantic Search to an Existing DynamoDB Table with Vector Indexes

Whenever someone asks me to add search to an application, I try to find ways around it. The implementation itself isn't the problem, it's everything that comes with it: extra components to manage, more failure points, and the constant challenge of keeping data in sync. For the past few years, I've worked a lot with DynamoDB and with the introduction of Vector Search I feel a lot more comfortable to add this type of functionality. I wrote last week about why AWS released another vector store and

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I Rebuilt My Laboratory System Into a Hospital Management Platform — And Learned That Bigger Isn't Always Better

During the Easter break of 2026, I returned to a project I had already paused twice. The first version had started as eHealth, inspired by my experience as a patient in a public hospital in Cameroon. Later, the idea became a laboratory management system after I got the opportunity to understand the problem from a different perspective. Then my GCE Advanced Level examinations and circumstances around the onboarding process forced me to pause again. But I couldn't leave it there. So I opened the p

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I Built a Freelance Marketplace from Scratch — Here’s What I Learned

Building a marketplace sounds simple at first. You have sellers. You have buyers. One side offers a service, the other side pays for it, and the platform connects them. That was roughly how I looked at it when I started building NexoRush. The reality was very different. A marketplace is not just a website with profiles, listings, and a checkout button. You have to think about trust, payments, disputes, discovery, security, SEO, user experience, and perhaps the hardest problem of all: getting bot

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Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your Discover feed. As shown in a video shared by Google, tapping the feature will open a chatbot-style interface, where you'll be able to describe your preferences. The chatbot will confi

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Introducing cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) in more than 25 AWS Regions with cross-Region inference. Learn how US geographic and global inference profiles route requests for higher throughput, how to call the models with the OpenAI and Converse APIs, and how to configure IAM, quotas, and monitoring.

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