I have been working with a US client to build a first-of-its-kind application to manage your consent to share your data amongst healthcare providers in your state. The project falls within HIPAA, so we need to meet all the HIPAA compliance requirements, including having a full history of the user Read more…
Many web applications experience high levels of traffic and spiky load patterns. The goal of load testing is to ensure that the architecture and system design works for the amount of traffic expected. It can help developers find bottlenecks and unexpected behavior before a system is deployed to production. This Read more…
My 4-week Production-Ready Serverless workshop is back! With an improved and more comprehensive curriculum based on student feedback from the last run in May, when over 50 students from around the world took part. This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn best practices for building serverless applications by Read more…
It’s been 12 months since I left full-time employment to fly solo as an independent consultant. After 15 years of full-time employment, I had to learn a lot, very quickly, after making this career change. Honestly, life has been great since. Even a global pandemic hasn’t managed to dampen my Read more…
Many of us know that introducing large batches of changes into production is risky. However, because of complexity and many moving parts, it can also be risky when deploying changes in small batches – without the right techniques. One of the better ways of mitigating deployment risk is by gradually Read more…
This post is courtesy of Dario La Porta, Senior Consultant, HPC. This blog is a continuation of a series of posts demonstrating how to create serverless architectures to support HPC workloads run with AWS ParallelCluster. The first post, Using AWS ParallelCluster with a serverless API, explains how to create a serverless API Read more…
Web and mobile applications usually interact with a backend service, often via an API. Many front-end applications pass requests for processing, wait for a result, and then display this to the user. This synchronous approach is only one way to handle messages, but modern applications have alternatives to provide a Read more…
When using serverless on AWS, you do not need to worry about load balancing, auto scaling, operating system management, managing utilization, or underlying hardware failures. All of it is abstracted from you so that you can focus on coding. What’s more, since you only pay for what you use, you Read more…
By Phil de Valence, Principal Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy says, “The main reasons that organizations are moving to the cloud are speed and agility.” Mainframes typically host core business processes and data. To stay competitive, customers have to quickly transform Read more…
An Adafruit PyPortal displaying a quote while synthesizing and playing speech using Amazon Polly. As a natural means of communication, voice is a powerful way to humanize an experience. What if you could make anything talk? This guide walks through how to leverage the cloud to add voice to an Read more…