Tag: Aws
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Advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems
Posted on October 4, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
Distributed systems offer numerous benefits such as scalability and fault tolerance but also present challenges like complexity and data consistency. This article explores both the advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems, providing insights into their impact on modern computing environments. By geeksforgeeks.org.
Tags distributed aws software-architecture cloud
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AWS joins Microsoft, Google Cloud in open-source push for finance tech
Posted on July 4, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length short
The Fintech Open Source Foundation onboarded seven new members, including hyperscaler AWS, market infrastructure provider DTCC and chipmaker Intel, the organization announced Wednesday. By Matt Ashare.
Tags fintech blockchain how-to aws google
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Mastering AWS API Gateway V2 HTTP and AWS Lambda with Terraform
Posted on February 16, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The article provides insights into using AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda with Terraform for efficient, cost-effective serverless solutions. This article aims to be a comprehensive guide for developers and DevOps professionals looking to master serverless solutions using AWS and Terraform. By Serhii Vasylenko.
Tags devops serverless apis app-development aws
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Behavior driven chaos with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Posted on February 5, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length long
A common challenge organizations face is how to gain confidence in and provide evidence for the continuous resilience of their workloads. Using modern chaos engineering principles can help in meeting this challenge, but the practice of chaos engineering can become complex. As a result, both the definition of the inputs and comprehension of the outputs of the process can become inaccessible to non-technical stakeholders. By Richard Whitworth and Greg Willson.
Tags devops aws app-development cio devops
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A beginner's guide to AWS best practices
Posted on January 4, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The topic of AWS Best Practices is huge and would be impossible to distil down to just a few points, so this post covers a few of the obvious choices and how you can find out more information. By Matthew Wilson.
Tags aws cloud devops app-development cio
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Distributed transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB
Posted on August 26, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It is great to see DynamoDB, and AWS in general, is publishing/sharing more widely than before. A killer feature of DynamoDB is predictability at any scale. Aligned with this predictability tenet, when adding transactions to DynamoDB, the first and primary constraint was to preserve the predictable high performance of single-key reads/writes at any scale. By Murat Demirbas.
Tags aws distributed apis app-development cloud nodejs
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Protecting serverless applications with AWS WAF
Posted on June 20, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Since serverless is designed to scale to infinity, one of the questions we get asked very often is whether a DDoS attack on the serverless application can result in a hefty Cloud Bill. One way to prevent this is to have rate limiting on API Gateway in place so that the serverless application doesn't scale to unexpected levels and end up using all underlying resources. By Vishwasa Navada K.
Tags serverless cloud infosec aws
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Serverless API on AWS, Azure and GCP - Deployment and benchmark
Posted on June 1, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this article, author has created a serverless Express API and deployed it on AWS, Azure, and GCP to evaluate each platform's performance. After conducting load tests using K6, I found that Azure and AWS performed comparably well (slightly better for Azure), while GCP lagged due to significant cold starts (up to 5 seconds when speaking to a Database). By Aurélien BETTINI.
Tags apis app-development azure gcp aws
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Developers journey to AWS Lambda
Posted on April 10, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length long
AWS Lambda has a surprise learning curve. You create a new function, write your code, and it executes. Easy, right? Then you discover just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Deluged by so many topics, it's hard to know where to go next. By Stephen Sennett.
Tags serverless cloud aws devops microservices learning
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Building serverless Java applications with the AWS SAM CLI
Posted on March 13, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
When using Java in the serverless environment, the AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (AWS SAM CLI) offers an easier way to build and deploy AWS Lambda functions. You can either use the default AWS SAM build mechanism or tailor the build behavior to your application needs. By Mehmet Nuri Deveci, Steven Cook, and Maximilian Schellhorn.
Tags apis devops aws app-development serverless
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Write reusable code for AppSync JavaScript resolvers
Posted on March 6, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Learn how to share code between AppSync JS resolvers. AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows developers to build scalable and performant GraphQL APIs. It is also serverless, meaning that you will only pay for what you use. By Benoît Bouré.
Tags nodejs javascript aws frontend apis database
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AWS introduces step functions distributed map for large-scale parallel data processing
Posted on February 14, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets interactive and highly parallel serverless data processing workflows. By Renato Losio.
Tags aws app-development serverless web-development devops