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Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2023
2023 was a rollercoaster year in tech, and we at the AWS Architecture Blog feel so fortunate to have shared in the excitement. As we move into 2024 and all of the new technologies we could see, we want to take a moment to highlight the brightest stars from 2023. As always, thanks to our […]
Behavior Driven Chaos with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
A common challenge organizations face is how to gain confidence in and provide evidence for the continuous resilience of their workloads. Using modern chaos engineering principles can help in meeting this challenge, but the practice of chaos engineering can become complex. As a result, both the definition of the inputs and comprehension of the outputs […]
Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture Series #7: Using Containers and Cell-based design for higher resiliency and efficiency
In our previous Journey to Cloud-Native blogposts, we talked about evolving our architecture to become more scalable, secure, and cost effective to handle hyperscale requirements. In this post, we take these next steps: 1/ containerizing our applications to improve resource efficiency, and, 2/ using cell-based design to improve resiliency and time to production. Containerize applications […]
ITS adopts microservices architecture for improved air travel search engine
Internet Travel Solutions, LLC (ITS) is a travel management company that develops and maintains smart products and services for the corporate, commercial, and cargo sectors. ITS streamlines travel bookings for companies of any size around the world. It provides an intuitive consumer site with an integrated view of your travel and expenses. ITS had been […]
Automating multi-AZ high availability for WebLogic administration server: Part 1
Oracle WebLogic Server is used by enterprises to power production workloads, including Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle Fusion Middleware applications. Customer applications are deployed to WebLogic Server instances (managed servers) and managed using an administration server (admin server) within a logical organization unit, called a domain. Clusters of managed servers provide application availability and horizontal […]
Let’s Architect! Cost-optimizing AWS workloads
Every software component built by engineers and architects is designed with a purpose: to offer particular functionalities and, ultimately, contribute to the generation of business value. We should consider fundamental factors, such as the scalability of the software and the ease of evolution during times of business changes. However, performance and cost are important factors […]
Let’s Architect! Security in software architectures
Security is fundamental for each product and service you are building with. Whether you are working on the back-end or the data and machine learning components of a system, the solution should be securely built. In 2022, we discussed security in our post Let’s Architect! Architecting for Security. Today, we take a closer look at […]
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 […]