Front-End Web & Mobile

Category: Customer Solutions

Creating serverless GraphQL APIs from RDS databases with AWS AppSync and PostGraphile

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that provides an understandable description of the data in your API, and that allows clients to ask for data in the shape that they need it. GraphQL helps developers implement applications faster, by giving developers the ability to query multiple databases, microservices, and APIs with a single GraphQL […]

How FINRA Built Xpand Reality, an Augmented Reality Simulation App for Investor Education

This is a guest blog by Sumalatha Bachu [Director, Technology] and Kumar Siddhartha [Lead Developer], Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). FINRA is dedicated to protecting investors and safeguarding market integrity in a manner that facilitates vibrant capital markets. 2021 marked FINRA’s sixth annual internal hackathon, entitled the Createathon. The three-day event is an important part […]

Enhancing Live Sports with the new AWS AppSync filtering capabilities

This article was written by Stefano Sandrini, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS With AWS AppSync you can create serverless GraphQL APIs that simplify application development by providing a single endpoint to securely access data from multiple data sources, and leverage GraphQL subscriptions to implement engaging real-time application experiences by automatically publishing data updates to subscribed API […]

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Add Interactive Maps in React using Amplify Geo, powered by Amazon Location Service

This blog post was written by Michael Liendo – Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Amplify. Recently, AWS Amplify announced an easier way for React developers to add map and search functionality to their applications via the Amplify CLI as well as new AWS-aware Geo components. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to […]

Building a reusable testing pipeline for AWS Amplify plugins

Amplify Video is an open source plugin for the Amplify-CLI that lets you quickly add live and video-on-demand streaming to your Amplify-powered applications. The Amplify Video community recently posted a recent article to the AWS Media Blog detailing their testing implementation testing for the plugin. If you’re building your own plugins or just curious to […]

Real-time live sports updates with AWS AppSync

This article was written by Stefano Sandrini, Sr. Mobile Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS     AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows to deploy serverless GraphQL backends in the AWS Cloud. It provides features that developers can use to create modern data driven applications allowing to easily query multiple databases, microservices, and APIs […]

Building an application with AWS Amplify, Amazon Cognito, and an OpenID Connect Identity Provider

June 27, 2024: This blog post covers Amplify Gen 1. For new Amplify apps, we recommend using Amplify Gen 2. You can learn more about Gen 2 in our launch blog post. This post was written by Carlos Perea – Global Cloud Infrastructure Architect at AWS, Krithivasan Balasubramaniyan – Senior Consultant at AWS, and Edvin […]

Building Our Startup MVP – Why We Chose AWS Amplify

All of US Financial chooses AWS Amplify to build their fintech startup All of Us Financial is an online trading platform that offers retail investors an alternative to a traditional full-service brokerage. Built with the modern, individual investor in mind, All of Us offers service fee transparency and gives investors a portion of its commission […]

Delivering Video at Scale in Mobile and Web Applications with Orangetheory Fitness

This post was written by Ashwin Raghuraman, Solutions Architect, AWS and Pedro C. González, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Orangetheory Fitness Orangetheory Fitness is a health and fitness company that combines science, coaching and technology to create maximum results for their customers from heart rate based workouts.  Using a formula that combines heart rate metrics and a proprietary […]