Simplifying application orchestration with AWS Step Functions and AWS SAM

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSimplifying application orchestration with AWS Step Functions and AWS SAM Modern software applications consist of multiple components distributed across many services. AWS Step Functions lets you define serverless workflows to orchestrate these services so you can build and update your apps quickly. Step Functions manages its own state and retries when there…

Train ALBERT for natural language processing with TensorFlow on Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedTrain ALBERT for natural language processing with TensorFlow on Amazon SageMaker At re:Invent 2019, AWS shared the fastest training times on the cloud for two popular machine learning (ML) models: BERT (natural language processing) and Mask-RCNN (object detection). To train BERT in 1 hour, we efficiently scaled out to 2,048 NVIDIA V100 GPUs by…

Building your App from Idea to MVP: Part 2

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding your App from Idea to MVP: Part 2 By Nader Dabit, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS Amplify, originally published on Y Combinator’s Startup School In part one of the Building a Mobile App series, you learned how to unpack your mobile app idea. In part two, will learn how to build a…

Generate Python, Java, and .NET software libraries from a TypeScript source

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGenerate Python, Java, and .NET software libraries from a TypeScript source As builders and developers, many of us are aware of the principle of Don’t Repeat Yourself (or DRY) and practice it every day. Entire runtimes and programming languages have been developed by taking that principle to an even higher level, with…

How to create SAML providers with AWS CloudFormation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to create SAML providers with AWS CloudFormation As organizations grow, they often experience an inflection point where it becomes impractical to manually manage separate user accounts in disparate systems. Managing multiple AWS accounts is no exception. Many large organizations have dozens or even hundreds of AWS accounts spread across multiple business…