Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedJourney to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput, we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters,…

CDK Corner – April 2021

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedCDK Corner – April 2021 Social – Community Engagement We’re getting closer and closer to CDK Day, with the event receiving 75 CFP submissions. The cdkday schedule is now available to plan out your conference day. Updates to the CDK Constructs promoted to General Availability Promoting a module to stable/General Availability is always a…

Manage fine-grained access control using AWS Lake Formation

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedManage fine-grained access control using AWS Lake Formation AWS Lake Formation is a fully managed service that helps you build, secure, and manage data lakes, and provide access control for data in the data lake. Customers across lines of business (LOBs) need a way to manage granular access permissions for different users at the…

Operating Lambda: Performance optimization – Part 1

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedOperating Lambda: Performance optimization – Part 1 In the Operating Lambda series, I cover important topics for developers, architects, and systems administrators who are managing AWS Lambda-based applications. This three-part series discusses performance optimization for Lambda-based applications. Serverless applications can be extremely performant, thanks to the ease of parallelization and concurrency. While the Lambda…