Tag: Developer Tools

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has emerged as an essential strategy associated with organizations’ DevOps practices. Tools such as AWS CloudFormation and Terraform allow software-defined infrastructure to be deployed quickly and repeatedly to the public cloud infrastructure.

At last count, Smallpdf, the PDF conversion startup I work for, had roughly 13 million monthly users. As for the number of employees currently running our website? That would be 10—with only two employees focused on the backend and infrastructure. You might be curious to learn how we run such a processing intensive website with such a small DevOps team. Our little secret stands in automation and delegation.

RedLock explains how their new AI-driven approach correlates disparate data sets across large, distributed AWS environments and how this provides a unified view of security and compliance risks.

Guest Post by Daniel Hoelbling-Inzko, Solution Architect, Bitmovin Video encoding can be a time-consuming proposition. Every creative professional who has ever fallen asleep while exporting their Premiere or Final Cut master knows this. When encoding a video for adaptive bitrate streaming, most people do essentially the same thing: start ffmpeg and wait for it to […]

Chirp is a London-based startup that provides data-over-sound technology solutions that aid interoperability between networks and devices and simplifies the connection and data-sharing process between devices using sound.

What’s preventing developers from finding and using your product? Before you promote your product to developers, you should define exactly who your targeted developers are and remove obstacles that are preventing them from adopting your product.

As Datapipe’s data and analytics consultants, we are frequently asked by customers to help pick the right solution for them. As a result of our customer engagements, we decided to share our findings in our Apache Kafka vs. Amazon Kinesis whitepaper. In this post, we summarize some of the whitepaper’s important takeaways.

The AWS Cloud and Intel’s gateways enable a highly secure, edge-to-cloud solution that accelerates the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

By Brent Rabowsky, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS

This post is part 1 of a two-part series. In this post, I focus on data modeling with DynamoDB. I describe an example use case to demonstrate alternative ways of modeling the same data, and the pros and cons of each approach. Proper data modeling is an essential prerequisite to beginning the development of a back end service.