In this series I will be sharing daily hints and tips to help you get ahead and start to accelerate you on your own journey. Each day I will share something new tip, categorised against a few themes and topics. If you have your own tips, or your own experiences with tips I share, please use the comment feature or feel free to contact me directly. Check out the previous tips
Check out this video that my colleague Ricardo Ferreira put together that walks you through the end to end process of doing this.
Amazon Q Developer Workspace Index
Amazon Q Developer customisation requires developers to login using the Professional Tier, so what do you do if you are using BuilderID? The good news is that you do have options, and you can use Amazon Q Developer Workspace Index to provide similar results.
I spend some time writing code for Apache Airflow, a project that is evolving quickly with new releases being updated on a monthly basis almost. I was not getting the latest good practices when using AI coding assistants on how to write Python code, and so I looked to improve this.
I created a local directory, downloaded and git cloned the latest "golden" examples and source code from the supporting repo, and then made sure that Amazon Q Developer workspace index had been enabled. What I found is that this provided me with different code suggestions, often improving on the original.
It is not perfect, and it tends to work better for some use cases than others so I do recommend experimenting and see how you get on. I have written about this a few times. In I shared how I updated some Valkey client code to use a newer approach to connecting to Valkey, using the GLIDE client. These provide details of how I approached this, including what preparation I took.
So if you find yourself in a situation where code suggestions are not what you need, consider the two approaches outlined in the post to see if they help address your issue and improve the output Amazon Q Developer generates.
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You can try Amazon Q Developer for free today, on community.aws, as I have been sharing a lot of tips and use cases of how I am using Amazon Q Developer. You can also keep up to date with all the new features and improvements of Amazon Q Developer by checking out the changelog.
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