AWS ElastiCache for Redis as Application Cache

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS ElastiCache for Redis as Application Cache In the modern cloud computing world, most applications use caching to reduce latency and improve performance for read-heavy workloads. In any application, caching plays an important role and can be applied to various layers such as database, UI layer (Session Management), file system, and operating…

Realize Policy-as-Code with AWS Cloud Development Kit through Open Policy Agent

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRealize Policy-as-Code with AWS Cloud Development Kit through Open Policy Agent AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open source software framework that allows users to define and provision AWS infrastructure using familiar programming languages. Using CDK, you can version control infrastructure, and the Infrastructure-as-Code concept opens up new opportunities to…

Building well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 3

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding well-architected serverless applications: Approaching application lifecycle management – part 3 This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the…

One-Click access to servers and VMs with Session Manager and MontyCloud

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedOne-Click access to servers and VMs with Session Manager and MontyCloud IT administrators and DevOps engineers often perform routine operations to manage their cloud infrastructure, modern on-premises environment workloads, and applications. One such routine operation is the ability to manage Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, and virtual machines (VM) through a remote…

Field Notes: Optimize your Java application for AWS Lambda with Quarkus

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedField Notes: Optimize your Java application for AWS Lambda with Quarkus This blog post is a continuation of an existing article about optimizing your Java application for Amazon ECS with Quarkus. In this blog post, we examine the benefits of Quarkus in the context of AWS Lambda. Quarkus is a framework that uses…