Pause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedPause and Resume Workloads on T3 and T3a Instances with Amazon EC2 Hibernation You can now hibernate newly-launched EBS-backed Amazon EC2 T3 and T3a instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your workloads and resuming them later from the saved state. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop…

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…