Middleware-assisted Zero-downtime Live Database Migration to AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMiddleware-assisted Zero-downtime Live Database Migration to AWS When trying to figure out how to refactor your applications to leverage AWS Managed Services, you have some decisions to make. You may have decided to move your storage layer to AWS before the computational layer. This may help with using advanced database features, in addition to…

Access token security for microservice APIs on Amazon EKS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAccess token security for microservice APIs on Amazon EKS In this blog post, I demonstrate how to implement service-to-service authorization using OAuth 2.0 access tokens for microservice APIs hosted on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). A common use case for OAuth 2.0 access tokens is to facilitate user authorization to a public facing…

Introducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis – A Redis-Compatible, Durable, In-Memory Database Service Interactive applications need to process requests and respond very quickly, and this requirement extends to all the components of their architecture. That is even more important when you adopt microservices and your architecture is composed of many small independent services that communicate…