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Category: AWS Lambda
How SeatGeek uses AWS Serverless to control authorization, authentication, and rate-limiting in a multi-tenant SaaS application
SeatGeek is a ticketing platform for web and mobile users, offering ticket purchase and reselling for sports games, concerts, and theatrical productions. In 2022, SeatGeek had an average of 47 million daily tickets available, and their mobile app was downloaded 33+ million times. Historically, SeatGeek used multiple identity and access tools internally. Applications were individually […]
Use a reusable ETL framework in your AWS lake house architecture
Data lakes and lake house architectures have become an integral part of a data platform for any organization. However, you may face multiple challenges while developing a lake house platform and integrating with various source systems. In this blog, we will address these challenges and show how our framework can help mitigate these issues. Lake […]
How Thomson Reuters monitors and tracks AWS Health alerts at scale
Thomson Reuters Corporation is a leading provider of business information services. The company’s products include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most trusted global news service: Reuters. Thomson Reuters is committed to a cloud first strategy on AWS, with thousands of applications hosted on AWS […]
Build a serverless retail solution for endless aisle on AWS
In traditional business models, retailers handle order-fulfillment processes from start to finish—including inventory management, owning or leasing warehouses, and managing supply chains. But many retailers aren’t set up to carry additional inventory. The “endless aisle” business model is an alternative solution for lean retailers that are carrying enough in-store inventory while wanting to avoid revenue […]
Content Repository for Unstructured Data with Multilingual Semantic Search: Part 2
Leveraging vast unstructured data poses challenges, particularly for global businesses needing cross-language data search. In Part 1 of this blog series, we built the architectural foundation for the content repository. The key component of Part 1 was the dynamic access control-based logic with a web UI to upload documents. In Part 2, we extend the […]
Temporal data lake architecture for benchmark and indices analytics
Financial trading houses and stock exchanges generate enormous volumes of data in near real-time, making it difficult to perform bi-temporal calculations that yield accurate results. Achieving this requires a processing architecture that can handle large volumes of data during peak bursts, meet strict latency requirements, and scale according to incoming volumes. In this post, we’ll […]
IBM Consulting creates innovative AWS solutions in French Hackathon
In March 2023, IBM Consulting delivered an Innovation Hackathon in France, aimed at designing and building new innovative solutions for real customer use cases using the AWS Cloud. In this post, we briefly explore six of the solutions considered and demonstrate the AWS architectures created and implemented during the Hackathon. Hackathon solutions Solution 1: Optimize […]
Reduce archive cost with serverless data archiving
For regulatory reasons, decommissioning core business systems in financial services and insurance (FSI) markets requires data to remain accessible years after the application is retired. Traditionally, FSI companies either outsourced data archiving to third-party service providers, which maintained application replicas, or purchased vendor software to query and visualize archival data. In this blog post, we […]
Let’s Architect! Open-source technologies on AWS
We brought you a Let’s Architect! blog post about open-source on AWS that covered some technologies with development led by AWS/Amazon, as well as well-known solutions available on managed AWS services. Today, we’re following the same approach to share more insights about the process itself for developing open-source. That’s why the first topic we discuss […]
Let’s Architect! Designing architectures for multi-tenancy
Understanding architectural patterns for multi-tenancy has become crucial for architects and developers aiming to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions. Isolating tenant data is a fundamental responsibility for Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. In this edition of Let’s Architect!, we talk about comprehensive exploration of multi-tenant architectures, covering various aspects, such as SaaS microservices, […]