Announcing Data API for Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnnouncing Data API for Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift can now be accessed using the built-in Data API, making it easy to build web-services based applications and integrating with services, including AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, and AWS Cloud9. Redshift Data API simplifies data access, ingest, and egress from languages supported with AWS SDK…

Visualizing TensorFlow training jobs with TensorBoard

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedVisualizing TensorFlow training jobs with TensorBoard TensorBoard is an open-source toolkit for TensorFlow users that allows you to visualize a wide range of useful information about your model, from model graphs; to loss, accuracy, or custom metrics; to embedding projections, images, and histograms of weights and biases. This post demonstrates how to…

Enhanced monitoring and automatic scaling for Apache Flink

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedEnhanced monitoring and automatic scaling for Apache Flink Thousands of developers use Apache Flink to build streaming applications to transform and analyze data in real time. Apache Flink is an open-source framework and engine for processing data streams. It’s highly available and scalable, delivering high throughput and low latency for the most…

Creating a sophisticated conversational experience using Amazon Lex in Australian English

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCreating a sophisticated conversational experience using Amazon Lex in Australian English Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. To build truly engaging conversational experiences, you need high quality speech recognition and natural language understanding that understands the intent of the customer accurately. We…

How to set up custom domain names for AppSync

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to set up custom domain names for AppSync I previously wrote about five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway. One thing that API Gateway supports but you can’t do with AppSync out-of-the-box yet is custom domain names. Your shiny new AppSync API is available at XYZ.appsync-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/graphql, but you really want…