Fred Destin, founder of London-based Stride.VC, has been in the venture business for more than two decades, and what he sees now in the startup investment world is not surprisingly a substantially tightening economic picture. Startup valuations are falling by 30-50%. Volume of deals getting done are down by 30-50%. “Half of our portfolio’s (business)…
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. What are the benefits of using a fully managed service rather than self-managing your own non-relational database on…
The S3-to-Lambda serverless design pattern can become a flexible core for your serverless applications. In this pattern, you configure S3 to notify Lambda when events happen, to run your custom code. This video shows how this works in detail, reviewing the characteristics of both services, and how to use the integration for building highly scalable…
See how you can use bring automated speech-to-text into your applications with minimal code. This solution uses Amazon Transcribe to automatically convert mp4 audio clips into text. This type of serverless application can analyze customer support calls, for example, and create a sentiment analysis using Amazon Comprehend. The walkthrough application takes the transcribed text and…
AWS Step Functions allows to represent complex business logic flows in your application without using custom code. You can trigger Step Functions workflows from S3 events, enabling you to build scalable state machine easily. This design can be used for all sorts of practical business use-cases. For example, saving a signed customer contract from an…
Learn how you can use bring automated natural language translation into your applications with minimal code. This solution uses Amazon Translate to automatically convert between dozens of different languages. This can be useful for many applications. In this walkthrough, you’ll see how to implement a automated and scalable translation process for assets stored in an…