I built a crypto monitoring app with serverless – this is how

By Dustin Ward

In this article, I will explain how I built COINDATAX, a cryptocurrency analytics platform to help investors analyze the market, and explain why we choose to go serverless. I will also explain our biggest pain points with AWS Lambda, and how Dashbird helped us with Lambda performance monitoring. Why serverless? When my co-founder and I decided…

Field Notes: Build Dynamic IVR Menus with Amazon Connect and AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedField Notes: Build Dynamic IVR Menus with Amazon Connect and AWS Lambda This post was co-written by Marius Cealera, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, and Zdenko Estok, Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer at Accenture.  Modern interactive voice response (IVR) systems help customers find answers to their questions through a series of menus, usually…

Blue/Green deployment with AWS Developer tools on Amazon EC2 using Amazon EFS to host application source code

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBlue/Green deployment with AWS Developer tools on Amazon EC2 using Amazon EFS to host application source code Many organizations building modern applications require a shared and persistent storage layer for hosting and deploying data-intensive enterprise applications, such as content management systems, media and entertainment, distributed applications like machine learning training, etc. These applications demand…

Introducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller I am pleased to announce the availability today of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller, a Amazon Route 53 set of capabilities that continuously monitors an application’s ability to recover from failures and controls application recovery across multiple AWS Availability Zones, AWS Regions, and on premises environments…