Building high-quality benchmark tests for Amazon Redshift using Apache JMeter

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding high-quality benchmark tests for Amazon Redshift using Apache JMeter In the introductory post of this series, we discussed benchmarking benefits and best practices common across different open-source benchmarking tools. As a reminder of why benchmarking is important, Amazon Redshift allows you to scale storage and compute independently, and for you to…

Amazon Connect now supports sharing attachments in chat

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Connect now supports sharing attachments in chat You can now send attachments directly through Amazon Connect Chat, making it easier than ever to resolve your customers’ support needs. For example, an agent can send a copy of a recent hotel invoice or a customer can share a photo of a damaged…

Continuously building and delivering Maven artifacts to AWS CodeArtifact

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedContinuously building and delivering Maven artifacts to AWS CodeArtifact Artifact repositories are often used to share software packages for use in builds and deployments. Java developers using Apache Maven use artifact repositories to share and reuse Maven packages. For example, one team might own a web service framework that is used by…

Enhancing AWS X-Ray support in OpenTelemetry JavaScript SDK

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedEnhancing AWS X-Ray support in OpenTelemetry JavaScript SDK In this post, AWS intern Kelvin Lo shares his experience of enhancing the OpenTelemetry JavaScript SDK to support AWS X-Ray. These enhancements are also available in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry is a popular open source project under Cloud Native Computing (CNCF) Foundation.…