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Distributed systems, infrastructure, and the trade-offs of building at scale.

The Hard Lessons of Cloud Migration: inDrive's Path from Monolith to Microservices

inDrive's Sasha Lisachenko and Artem Gab share a four-year journey from a bare-metal monolith to a cloud-native, geo-distributed platform on AWS, including their migration from Redis to Valkey on ElastiCache.

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Evolving Lambda: from ephemeral compute to durable execution

Michael Gasch on AWS Lambda Durable Functions - the checkpoint-replay model that brings resilient, long-running, stateful workflows natively to Lambda, and when to choose it over Step Functions.

1 min read

12-Factor-app on containers - re:Invent2021

A practical look at the 12-factor app methodology with building microservices with containers

1 min read

AWS Containers a2z - Step 1 Lightsail

(Photo by Bernd Dittrich on Unsplash) Welcome back to the AWS Containers a2z blog series! We discussed in the introduction about our goals and how we will get there.

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Secure Connection between AWS VPC and a Raspberry Pi

(Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash) In a recent discussion with a colleague (in fact few months back, I have been slow on this one), they asked if I had a simple procedure to connect a Raspberry Pi running at home to a VPC on AWS.

9 min read

AWS Containers a2z - Introduction

(Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash ) I have been meaning to write a series of blog posts about building applications using containers on AWS for a while.

6 min read

Introducing AWS Step Functions integration with Amazon EKS

Launch blog for the AWS Step Functions integration with Amazon EKS

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ServerlessConf'18 in San Francisco - Day Two

ServerlessConf So yesterday was Day 2 at the ServerlessConf in San Francisco. It started very well with a passionate speaker: Simon Wardley (@swardley), who presented a practical strategic and business approach that leads to Serverless and Functions.

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ServerlessConf'18 in San Francisco - Day One

ServerlessConf Serverless The creation of an Alexa skill in 2016 was this aha moment I discovered the concept of serverless or more precisely Function as a Service a.

4 min read

AWSome!

Today I have passed the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certification! And two weeks ago, I passed the AWS Developer - Associate certification. That’s the reason for going back to hibernation again, not easy to manage a demanding career with travels and work to do, whilst having quality time with family then find the time to work on it.

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I love you Alexa!

Last year, I discovered Amazon Echo, an amazing product launched by Amazon. It is a voice-controlled device that is connected and can perform various operations for you like telling the weather forecast, playing your favorite playlist on Spotify (or other services), book an Uber transfer or even a pizza!

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