Category: Architecture

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed, distributed, open search, and analytics service that is powered by the Apache Lucene search library. OpenSearch Service is used for real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and website search. It’s ideal for use cases that require fast access and response for large volumes of data. OpenSearch Dashboards is derived […]

In Part 4 of this series, Governing Security at Scale and IAM Baselining, we discussed building a multi-account strategy and improving access management and least privilege to prevent unwanted access and to enforce security controls. As a refresher from previous posts in this series, our example e-commerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. The company […]

Microservices structure an application as a set of independently deployable services. They speed up software development and allow architects to quickly update systems to adhere to changing business requirements. According to best practices, the different services should be loosely coupled, organized around business capabilities, independently deployable, and owned by a single team. If applied correctly, […]

Cloud migrations invariably require the coordination of multiple stakeholders, such as business and technical teams, partners, and third-party providers. As a stakeholder, understanding your portfolio is crucial to determine which workloads to migrate, and their requirements and interdependencies. But manually gathering these insights can be a daunting task. You can inform your decision by provisioning […]

Emails are often used as an entry point for malicious software like trojan horses, rootkits, or encryption-based ransomware. The NoSpamProxy offering developed by Net at Work tackles this threat, providing secure and confidential email communication. A subservice of NoSpamProxy called 32guards is responsible for threat reports of inbound and outbound emails. With the increasing number […]

Organizations with global operations can struggle to notify their customers of any business-related announcements or notifications in different languages. Their customers want to receive notifications in their local language and communication preference. Organizations often rely on complicated third-party services or individuals to manually translate the notifications. This can lead to a loss of revenue due […]

There has been a tectonic shift in the approach to hosting enterprise workloads. Companies are rapidly moving from on-premises data centers to cloud-based services. The driving factor has been the ability to innovate faster on the cloud. Your transition to cloud can be straightforward, but it does go beyond the usual ‘lift-and-shift’ approach. To start […]

As the world’s largest fantasy sports platforms with more than 120 million registered users, Dream11 runs multiple contests simultaneously while processing millions of user requests per minute. Their user-centric and data-driven teams make it a priority to ensure that the Dream11 application (app) remains protected against all kinds of threats and vulnerabilities. Introduction to AWS […]

re:Invent is a yearly event that offers learning and networking opportunities for the global cloud computing community. 2021 marks the launch of several new features in different areas of cloud services and migration. In this blog, we’ll cover some of the most important recent announcements. AWS Mainframe Modernization (Preview) Mainframe modernization has become a necessity […]

You’ve likely read about or heard someone talk about blockchain. This distributed and decentralized ledger collects immutable blocks of information and helps secure your data without going through third party. It is commonly used to maintain secure and decentralized records for registries, consensus, cryptocurrencies, and the latest trend: non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This collection of content […]