Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) is a process that automates software development workflows and deploys better quality software that avoids bugs and code failure. CI/CD removes the manual human intervention that was traditionally needed to get code changes from development environments to production servers. With a CI/CD pipeline, code changes are automatically detected, built, […]

Point-in-time recovery (PITR) in Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed capability that creates continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. Continuous backups are important to ensure business continuity and compliance with regulations, and to protect against human errors, such as unintended writes or deletes. When PITR is enabled for a DynamoDB table, DynamoDB automatically backs […]

Need for Speed—No, it’s not the video game, but rather a critical requirement for the success of your website in this competitive world. Although we might think that subsecond delay is acceptable, the New York Times noted in For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait that humans can notice […]

Deploying containerized applications with cloud database services can involve many manual steps, such as configuring networks and securing database connections from the applications. To simplify development and deployment, you can use infrastructure as code (IaC) to build, configure, deploy, and scale containerized applications automatically. In this post, I show you how to use IaC concepts […]

Ethereum is a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality. The Beacon chain (ETH2) is an upgrade to Ethereum that introduced a proof-of-stake concept to the Ethereum ecosystem. Staking in ETH2 is done by validators who perform actions such as attestations and block proposal activities to improve the Ethereum network’s security and scalability. Validators in […]

Deploying and configuring AWS Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) across multiple environments involves several configurations, testing, and provisioning of AWS DMS resources. This can be time-consuming and error-prone due to the large number of settings involved. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) lets you define your cloud infrastructure as code in one of five […]

This blog post was last reviewed or updated May, 2022. September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this post, we discuss the need for a metadata and data lineage tool and the problems it solves, how to rapidly deploy it in the language you prefer using […]