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Category: AWS .NET Development
Modernizing legacy .NET applications: DraftKings’ principles for success
This is a guest post from David Musicant, Director of Architecture from DraftKings. DraftKings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company created to fuel the competitive spirits of sports fans with products that range across daily fantasy, regulated gaming, and digital media. A little over a year ago, we laid out a path […]
Join Windows on AWS at re:Invent 2020
Join us at re:Invent 2020 for live, online presentations led by AWS solutions architects and engineers. During these presentations and ask-the-expert sessions, you have the unique opportunity to engage on 1-on-1 conversations with Windows Server, .NET, and SQL Server experts. This year, re:Invent is a free online event, giving you unlimited access to hundreds of […]
How Kloia used Porting Assistant for .NET to accelerate EposNow API modernization
By Turgay Özgür – Software Consultant at Kloia Onuralp Taner – Software Consultant at Kloia Prasad Rao – Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Many organizations must modernize their .NET Framework legacy applications to .NET Core to take advantage of the performance, cost savings, and robust ecosystem of Linux. […]
How ClearScale helped SF Match modernize its Microsoft application to optimize performance
By Pavel Vasilyev, Director of Solutions Architecture, ClearScale While the speed of cloud computing is accelerating, the progress of companies using these technologies is being slowed by their own legacy applications. That was the case for SF Match, whose legacy Microsoft application was delaying their performance. For more than 40 years, SF Match has used […]
Windows on AWS Webinar: Run your Windows infrastructure on AWS
Millions of customers run on AWS. We’ve spent over 11 years helping organizations migrate to the cloud, including large-scale migrations of servers, applications, data centers, and databases. AWS also offers the best cloud platform for Windows-based applications delivering performance, security, reliability, and cost savings. This is why customers trust AWS to be the most popular, […]
Why customers are moving from .NET Framework to .NET Core on AWS
Farmers using the AgriDigital app almost certainly don’t care what infrastructure AgriDigital runs behind-the-scenes. But they do care about the 50 percent performance boost AgriDigital got by switching from Microsoft Azure (Azure) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). AgriDigital, an Australian technology startup that wants to simplify the world’s agricultural supply chain, was looking to break free from […]
Cost optimization and innovation: An introduction to application modernization
This post is contributed by Douglas Lee, Principal Developer Advocate for Windows When we work with customers running on-premises Windows workloads, we usually hear two things. Customers want to lower their Total Cost of Ownership, and embrace technologies that enable them to innovate freely to meet their evolving business needs. Introduction to Windows Application Modernization […]
To get the most from open source software, run it where it works best
Given the incredibly rich open source ecosystem, many companies have decided to make open source software integral to how they build and run applications. Deciding to use open source software like MySQL or Apache Kafka, however, isn’t the same as effectively running it. As such, the current question isn’t whether to use open source software, but rather how […]
Inside MindTouch’s Modernization Journey with AWS
Even early adopters of the cloud can still benefit from modernizing their infrastructure. MindTouch is one example. MindTouch, with over 43 million active users, offers a knowledge management platform that allows organizations to create and publish content into a customizable self-service experience. MindTouch started its modernization journey with AWS in 2008 when they moved their Microsoft […]
Why you should modernize with AWS (and leave your old guard vendor or technology behind)
Thousands of customers are modernizing their infrastructure, evident in the booming use of Linux versus Microsoft Windows and the shrinking use of Oracle database since 2013 even as open source engines rise, as Gartner data (e.g., State of the Open-Source DBMS Market 2018) shows. Most of this modernization is happening in the cloud as customers […]