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Xiaoli 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…

10 min readJul 10, 2023

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

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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.

6 min readDec 10, 2020

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Migrate PostgreSQL on AWS from RDS to Aurora

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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.

3 min readApr 26, 2020

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The DNS Lookup Journey

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My Docker Cheatsheet

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

1 min readJan 3, 2019

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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…

2 min readNov 10, 2018

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A Simple Friendly Story of Go Pointers

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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…

2 min readNov 8, 2018

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

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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…

6 min readMay 31, 2018

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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…

2 min readMar 2, 2018

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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.

2 min readJan 30, 2018

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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…

3 min readOct 22, 2017

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Xiaoli Shen

Xiaoli Shen

Solutions Architect at AWS with focus areas in MLOps and now-code-low-code ML. 10 yrs in tech and counting. Opinions and posts are my own.

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