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Top 5: Architecture Content for May
With Architecture Center content being published nearly every day, sometimes more than two or three times a day, we know it can be hard to fit it all into your busy schedule. So, this month, we’ve rounded up our most popular and highly rated content to provide you with a quick rundown. 5. Architecture Center: […]
Read MoreMaking Effective Decisions for Your V1 AWS Design
In reviewing your existing business application portfolio to create V1 AWS designs—the first architecture design for moving to AWS—we must address two main factors that often inhibit progress: Your technology teams must find a clear path forward that balances modernization and migration. You must provide clear criteria to transform your platforms and also continue to […]
Read MoreBuilding a Serverless Outbreak Management Solution with AWS Data Lab
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. This post was co-written by Dhruba Mondal and Shhalu Mittal of Erickson Senior Living and Rielah De Jesus Erickson Senior Living is an owner, manager, and developer of retirement communities in the United States. We provide independent living, assisted living, […]
Read MoreDisaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby
In this blog post, you will learn about two more active/passive strategies that enable your workload to recover from disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Previously, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. Then we explored the backup and restore strategy. Now let’s learn about […]
Read MoreEnsure Optimal Application Performance with Distributed Load Testing on AWS
As a modern enterprise, your customers expect 100% availability of your critical web and mobile applications. Unforeseen events such as COVID-19, have necessitated many customer engagements to become virtual. This has made web and mobile applications even more critical. Distributed Load Testing on AWS (DLT) helps you automate the performance testing of your software applications […]
Read MoreManaging Asynchronous Workflows with a REST API
While building REST APIs, architects often discover that they have particular operations that have to run in the background outside of the request processing scope. Some of these may be “fire and forget”—there is no need to report back to the client—for example, when initiating a shipment. For others, the client may need a response, […]
Read MoreJourney to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput, we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability […]
Read MoreDisaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery
In a previous blog post, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. These strategies enable you to prepare for and recover from a disaster. By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events […]
Read MoreDynamic Request Routing in Multi-tenant Systems with Amazon CloudFront
In this blog post, we will share how OutSystems designed a globally distributed serverless request routing service for their multi-tenant architecture. This will provide you ways to benefit from a managed solution that’s scalable and requires a low operational effort. Namely, we explain how to select the origin serving an HTTP/S request using Lambda@Edge, including […]
Read MoreJourney to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #2 – Maximizing System Throughput
In the last blog, Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth, we talked about hypergrowth and the technical challenges it presents to companies. As a reminder, we presented an example ecommerce company running a monolithic application on Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This application connects with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The company recently experienced a […]
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