Author: Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuild real-time feature toggles with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs Feature toggles (or feature flags) are a software development technique allowing developers to programmatically enable or disable features of an application. In practice, feature toggles control a system’s behavior by controlling conditional statements in the application code. Feature toggles have…

AWS FeedIntroducing hierarchical deletion to easily clean up unused resources in Amazon Forecast Amazon Forecast just launched the ability to hierarchically delete resources at a parent level without having to locate the child resources. You can stay focused on building value-adding forecasting systems and not worry about trying to manage individual resources that are created…

AWS FeedExplore four new features in AWS Chatbot AWS Chatbot helps you get started with ChatOps. For example, you can monitor AWS resources by receiving notifications in your Slack channels and interact with AWS resources by issuing diagnostic commands in your channels. In this post, I will share four new ways you can use AWS…

AWS FeedNew AWS Solutions Implementation: AWS Blueprints We are delighted to announce the addition of AWS Blueprints to the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. AWS Solutions Implementations help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform.

AWS FeedOrchestrate AWS Glue DataBrew jobs using Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow As the industry grows with more data volume, big data analytics is becoming a common requirement in data analytics and machine learning (ML) use cases. Analysts are building complex data transformation pipelines that include multiple steps for data preparation and cleansing. However,…

AWS FeedEstablishing Feedback Loops Based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review The AWS Well-Architected Framework helps customers build a secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads. The Well-Architected (WA) Tool was introduced in 2018 to help customers assess their workloads against the best practices defined by the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The…