Managing backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedManaging backend requests and frontend notifications in serverless web apps Web and mobile applications usually interact with a backend service, often via an API. Many front-end applications pass requests for processing, wait for a result, and then display this to the user. This synchronous approach is only one way to handle messages,…

Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection Amazon Athena has added support for Partition Projection, a new functionality that you can use to speed up query processing of highly partitioned tables and automate partition management.

Keeping Ansible effortless with AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedKeeping Ansible effortless with AWS Systems Manager Introduction Ansible is a powerful tool because it lets you handle many complicated tasks with minimal effort. Some time ago, I published running Ansible playbooks using Systems Manager blog when the first version of the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) document was released, which enabled support…