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The CTO’s Guide to building fullstack applications with AWS Amplify

The CTO’s Guide to building fullstack applications with AWS Amplify

As CTO, you are responsible for overseeing your engineering team’s technology strategy and guiding decisions around frameworks, architectures, and infrastructure. Choosing the right technology stack is crucial for building robust, scalable applications while maximizing developer productivity. This blog post will explain why building fullstack applications with AWS Amplify’s new code-first developer experience (Gen 2) should […]

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The frontend web and mobile app developer’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2023

ICYMI – AWS re:Invent is only a week away! We can’t wait to join thousands of builders in person and virtually for another exciting event. Don’t forget to register here. In this blog post, we’re highlighting the most exciting sessions for technology leaders and frontend, full-stack, and backend developers. Sessions span intermediate (200) through expert […]

Query Heterogeneous Data Sources through AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs

AWS AppSync and Amazon API Gateway are managed API services designed to provide a unified endpoint enabling front end clients to access resources stored in various data sources. This article underscores the advantages of employing AppSync as the API solution for external clients to access your data sources via GraphQL. Introduction GraphQL, an API protocol, […]

AWS AppSync Merged APIs Best Practices: Part 3 – Security

In this AWS AppSync Merged API – Best practices series, we cover important topics for developers, architects, and security engineers who are creating and managing AWS AppSync Merged and Source APIs. This multi-part series discusses best practices on schema composition, security, deployment and testing and subscriptions for Merged APIs. AWS AppSync offers Merged APIs, which […]

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AWS AppSync Merged APIs Best Practices: Part 2 – Schema Composition

In the AWS AppSync Merged API – Best practices series, we cover important topics for developers, architects, and security engineers who are creating and managing AWS AppSync Merged and Source APIs. This multi-part series discusses best practices on schema composition, deployment and testing, security and subscriptions for Merged APIs. AWS AppSync offers Merged APIs, which […]

Apollo GraphQL Federation with AWS AppSync

This article was written by Florian Chazal, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS Update (August 2022): This blog post has been updated to comply with the new Apollo Federation spec v2.0. If you are migrating from v1 check the official documentation. Apollo Federation is an architecture and specification used to build and connect multiple distributed backend […]

5 Next.js features that are better with AWS Amplify

5 Next.js features that are better with AWS Amplify

Next.js is a popular React framework that enables server-side rendering and static site generation for React apps. When combined with AWS Amplify, a set of purpose-built tools and features that enables frontend web and mobile developers to quickly and easily build full-stack applications on AWS, developers can build some really powerful apps. Here are 5 Next.js features that […]

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NEW: Build React forms for any API in minutes with AWS Amplify Studio (no AWS Account required)

Today, AWS Amplify announces Amplify Studio form builder, the new way to build React form components for any API. Amplify Studio is a visual interface that helps customers build full-stack web and mobile apps faster. Developers can now generate cloud-connected React forms based on their app’s GraphQL data model or REST APIs in one click […]

AWS Amplify presents: “Hey, Amplify!” A Discord Bot

Today, we are announcing “Hey, Amplify!“, a Discord bot aimed at improving the community experience. The AWS Amplify community Discord server has grown to amass nearly 20,000 members since its beginning in May 2020. Over time we have observed how members use Discord and what can be challenging with many supported services and platforms being […]

Implement Multi-Region Serverless (and Functionless) WebSocket Pub/Sub APIs with AWS AppSync and Amazon EventBridge

AWS AppSync allows developers to easily implement engaging real-time application experiences by automatically publishing data updates to subscribed API clients via serverless WebSockets connections. With built-in support for WebSockets, AppSync can seamlessly push data to clients that choose to listen to specific events from the backend. This means that you can easily and effortlessly make […]