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…

AWS Step Functions Use Cases

By Dustin Ward

As you probably already know, Step Functions is a serverless Workflow Service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There’s a lot to discuss about this service, and you’ll find plenty of vital information in our AWS Step Functions: The Ultimate Guide as well as in our series of articles that’ll dive deep into various aspects regarding this…