How to configure AWS X-Ray tracing for your AWS Batch jobs

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to configure AWS X-Ray tracing for your AWS Batch jobs Many customers implement business processes as batch workloads. End-to-end visibility into those workloads can help you identify bottlenecks in the batch jobs. In this blog post, I will show how to configure AWS X-Ray for your AWS Batch workloads in an automated way and…

How I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow I built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and serverless I have been involved with a client project to help the client launch a new social network for university students to engage with each other to do sports. Amongst other things, users can: Arrange activities and ask to join…

Architecture Monthly Magazine: Open Source

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedArchitecture Monthly Magazine: Open Source According to the Open Source Initiative, the term “open source” was created at a strategy session held in 1998 in Palo Alto, California, shortly after the announcement of the release of the Netscape source code. Stakeholders at that session realized that this announcement created an opportunity to…

etcd gets ready to graduate

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services Feedetcd gets ready to graduate Etcd, a distributed key-value store that helps powers projects such as Kubernetes, is set to join the ranks of the most critical and recognizable projects for open source computing. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the non-profit foundation that serves as the home for many fast-growing open…

Microservices and Serverless: Winning Strategies and Challenges

By Dustin Ward

The concept of a microservice perfectly fits the structure of a serverless function, which easily enables deployment and runtime isolation for different services. On the storage side, services such as DynamoDB also make it easier to have independent databases for each microservice and scale them independently (when required or desirable). Before we dive into details, please consider whether the benefits…