Category: Technical How-to

Logging information is important for troubleshooting issues and analyzing performance, and when Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers do not have logging turned on, the ability to assist them becomes limited, to the point that performing analysis may be impossible. In some cases, customers may not have the technical expertise needed to set up logging properly […]

AWS Bottlerocket is a Linux distribution that has been designed from the ground up to run containers. With its built-in security hardening and transactional update model, Bottlerocket offers improved security and operations for container infrastructure. It can be integrated with container orchestrators to allow for auto-update, thereby reducing management and operational overhead along with improved […]

Originally open sourced by Netflix in 2015, Spinnaker is a continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes rapidly and reliably. Spinnaker provides the flexibility to deploy applications on virtual machines running in the cloud or in your container platform of choice, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon […]

Organizations have complex infrastructure and need common tooling to make decisions about the system as a whole. In such scenarios, policy-based decision making could be implemented using Open Policy Agent (OPA). OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine, which decouples policy decision-making from policy enforcement. When a web-based application needs to make a policy […]

Many Java applications use Apache Maven or Gradle for building and managing the project. These tools help map how to build a particular piece of software, along with its different dependencies. In almost every scenario, these applications will depend on several external dependencies/libraries. AWS Lambda functions written in Java also use these tools for packaging […]

In this article, we’ll show how to stand up an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) dashboard for business users using Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Streamlit. Streamlit is an open source framework for data scientists to efficiently create interactive web-based data applications in pure Python. In this tutorial, the EDA dashboard allows for quick end-to-end deployment […]

Amazon Managed Grafana, is a fully managed service that makes visualizing and analyzing operational data at scale easier. Many customers choose Amazon Managed Grafana because of an existing investment in Grafana, its deep integration with vendors they might already be using, consolidation of metrics across environments, and powerful visualizations for both in-cloud and on-premises workloads. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of observability services and tools to gain visibility and insights about your workload’s health and performance. For example, Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray offer a variety of features to collect, ingest, and perform operations on traces, metrics, and log data generated from workloads. Purpose-built solutions, such as CloudWatch […]

Data has become the language of business. Organizations leverage data to better understand and deliver value to their customers. As a result, there is a growing need in many organizations for flexible patterns that can be leveraged to develop new applications and functionality to interact with their data. APIs, or application program interfaces, are a […]

In the first three months of 2021, the FreeRTOS.org blog published several posts, containing both deep technical content and FreeRTOS improvement updates. Check out the roundup of article summaries below for topics of interest to you. As always, we would love for you to participate in the FreeRTOS Forums and contribute through FreeRTOS on GitHub […]