Introducing the serverless LAMP stack – part 2 relational databases

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntroducing the serverless LAMP stack – part 2 relational databases In this post, you learn how to use an Amazon Aurora MySQL relational database in your serverless applications. I show how to pool and share connections to the database with Amazon RDS Proxy, and how to choose configurations. The code examples in…

Simplify Your Jenkins Builds with AWS CodeBuild

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSimplify Your Jenkins Builds with AWS CodeBuild Hello! This blog post is no longer the most up-to-date. Please see this blog post for the latest: Setting up a CI/CD pipeline by integrating Jenkins with AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodeDeploy. ———— Jeff Bezos famously said, “There’s a lot of undifferentiated heavy lifting that stands…

Analyzing Google Analytics data with Amazon AppFlow and Amazon Athena

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnalyzing Google Analytics data with Amazon AppFlow and Amazon Athena Software as a service (SaaS) applications are rapidly growing in importance. This data is essential to include when performing analytics to influence business decisions. Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that helps you transfer SaaS data to your data lake…

Amazon EKS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EKS Now Supports EC2 Inf1 Instances Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has quickly become a leading choice for machine learning workloads. It combines the developer agility and the scalability of Kubernetes, with the wide selection of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types available on AWS, such as the C5, P3,…

Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale

By Dustin Ward

“The COVID-19 pandemic has reset what it means to work, study, and socialize. Like many of us, I have come to rely on Microsoft Teams as my connection to my colleagues. In this post, our friends from the Microsoft Teams product group—Rish Tandon (Corporate Vice President), Aarthi Natarajan (Group Engineering Manager), and Martin Taillefer (Architect)—share…