• Getting Started with AWS Automation: EBS Snapshots, AWS Lambda and AWS Systems Manager

    Image source: Pixabay Guest Post by Gilad David Maayan Whether you’ve recently adopted cloud-based services or you’ve been using them for a while, you’re likely interested in reducing the amount of manual work that managing a cloud system requires. Luckily, AWS includes a variety of automation tools and integration options that you can put to use to accomplish just that.  We’ll look at three of your options here, one simple to implement and two a bit more challenging, to give you a better idea of how they work and how you can use them to maximum benefit. EBS Snapshots The Automation of EBS snapshots is one of the easiest places…

  • Windows Desktop Applications Automation using AutoIt

    Guest Post by Ahmed Memon AutoIt is a language & framework to automate (mainly) Windows GUI application interactions. Though it has its own language but there are wrappers available for Python, C# etc too. This write-up target developer who want to automate Windows Desktop Applications but either do not know the right tool or want to enhance their skills using AutoIt. Just like with anything, there is either informed or amateur approach towards solving a problem. Developers who have never written Windows GUI applications will write AutoIt code that will depend too much on interactions with active GUI. While we can get maximum out of AutoIt when we rely less on…