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Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

A Fullstack Text-to-Image Generative AI App You Can Build in an Afternoon

As a fun project for a hot summer weekend, I built a minimal fullstack text-to-image Generative AI web app with the Stable Diffusion model…

Jul 10, 2023

A Fullstack Text-to-Image Generative AI App You Can Build in an Afternoon

Jul 10, 2023

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Migrate PostgreSQL on AWS from RDS to Aurora

This is a story about rescuing a not-so-old system from the legacy architecture design which no longer suits its global requirements.

Dec 10, 2020

Migrate PostgreSQL on AWS from RDS to Aurora

Dec 10, 2020

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

The DNS Lookup Journey

…Or one answer to the famous “what happens when you type an URL in your browser address bar and hit the Enter key” question.

Apr 26, 2020

The DNS Lookup Journey

Apr 26, 2020

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

My Docker Cheatsheet

After lots of fumbling and rummages I’ve finally compiled my own Docker cheatsheet.

Jan 3, 2019

Jan 3, 2019

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

A Simple Friendly Story of Go Pointers

Scary stories have been told about the pointers in C/C++. The pointers in Go, however, are just simple and friendly: two usages of the…

Nov 10, 2018

A Simple Friendly Story of Go Pointers

Nov 10, 2018

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

Build a Create-React-App (ejected) for staging

In my work, there are environment variables predefined by the DevOps team which must obey certain company-wide rules. The implication: no…

Nov 8, 2018

Build a Create-React-App (ejected) for staging

Nov 8, 2018

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

Develop in Docker: a Node backend and a React front-end talking to each other

Recently I’ve started a new project which involves both a Node backend and a React front-end. The Node backend is a simple application…

May 31, 2018

Develop in Docker: a Node backend and a React front-end talking to each other

May 31, 2018

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

Use multiple ssh-keys for different GitHub accounts on the same computer

At joining my current work place, I was asked to create a new GitHub account before I can be a member of the company’s GitHub organization…

Mar 2, 2018

Mar 2, 2018

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

A really slow docker-compose problem…

Got handed over a new project, which manages multiple nginx configurations and runs unit-tests in docker using a docker-compose yaml file.

Jan 30, 2018

Jan 30, 2018

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

A swift impression on the Swift Tour (4) Objects, Classes, Inheritance

To declare a class in Swift is easy. Just say class MyClass {} and type the properties and methods like simple variables and functions…

Oct 22, 2017

Oct 22, 2017

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

Xiaoli (Alex) Shen

Senior AI Specialist at Microsoft. Ex-Solutions Architect (Machine Learning focused) at AWS. 13 years in tech and counting. Opinions and posts are my own.

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