This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the Read more…
This post is written by Vito De Giosa, Sr. Solutions Architect and Tim Bruce, Sr. Solutions Architect, Developer Acceleration. This series discusses solutions for scaling serverless games, using the Simple Trivia Service, a game that relies on user-generated content. Part 1 describes the overall architecture, how to deploy to your Read more…
One of the challenges businesses have is to constantly monitor information via media outlets and be alerted when a key interest is picked up, such as individual, product, or company information. One way to do this is to scan media and news feeds against a company watchlist. The list may Read more…
This post is written by Mark Richman, Senior Solutions Architect. Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is a fully managed service that makes it easier to run open-source versions of Apache Airflow on AWS. It allows you to build workflows to run your extract-transform-load (ETL) jobs and data pipelines. When working Read more…
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the Read more…
Amazon DynamoDB is a highly performant NoSQL database that provides data storage for many serverless applications. Unlike traditional SQL databases, it does not use table joins and other relational database constructs. However, you can model many common relational designs in a single DynamoDB table but the process is different using Read more…
This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See the introduction post for a table of contents and explanation of the Read more…
Today, AWS announces the public preview of AWS SAM Pipelines, a new capability of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI. AWS SAM Pipelines makes it easier to create secure continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for your organizations preferred continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) system. This blog post Read more…
Organizations are re-architecting their traditional monolithic applications to incorporate microservices. This helps them gain agility and scalability and accelerate time-to-market for new features. Each microservice performs a single function. However, a microservice might need to retrieve and process data from multiple disparate sources. These can include data stores, legacy systems, Read more…
By Gabriel Harris, Solution Architect – Axian By Tyler Holmes, CTO – Axian By Jignesh Suthar, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS In 2020, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed spending on on-premises data centers for the first time. This watershed milestone highlights the significant shift to the cloud for Read more…