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Vivek Kumar

Author: Vivek Kumar

Vivek is a Solutions Architect at AWS based out of New York. He works with customers providing technical assistance and architectural guidance on various AWS services. He brings more than 2 decades of experience in software engineering and architecture roles for various large-scale enterprises.

Build zero-downtime write architectures for Amazon Neptune

Build zero-downtime write architectures for Amazon Neptune

Learn how to build zero-downtime write architectures for Amazon Neptune using a write queue pattern with Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, or Amazon MSK. By decoupling write acceptance from write execution, your application keeps accepting graph writes during maintenance windows, failovers, and scaling operations.

Deploy multi-Region Amazon Aurora applications with a failover blueprint

Certain organizations require multi-Region redundancy for their workloads to achieve disaster recovery and business continuity. Disaster recovery is an important part of resiliency strategy and concerns how a workload responds when a disaster strikes. The most common pattern to have as a disaster recovery solution in AWS is to build a multi-Region application architecture including […]

A simple benchmark such as in the following visualization shows the performance of each major version with the default configuration increasing with the same application workload.

Upgrading from Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL version 9.5

Updated on 02/18/2021 with more details about the automatic upgrade and its timeline. The PostgreSQL – community releases a new major version yearly, with a defined end of life (EOL) policy of older major versions. This allows you to make version and upgrade decisions well into the future. The community EOL policy is to support […]