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A Primer on Idempotence for AWS Serverless Architecture
Understand idempotence in AWS serverless, tackling challenges from at-least-once delivery. Implement and automate with AWS Lambda, emphasizing early planning for consistent outcomes. Use tools like Lambda Powertools and prioritize testing for reliability.
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Cloud-Computing in the Post-Serverless Era: Current Trends and beyond
Discover the evolution of cloud-computing in the post-serverless era, with a shift towards hyper-specialized vertical multi-cloud services and a trend moving from Infrastructure as Code to Composition as Code. Microservices are being redefined in the cloud landscape and upcoming cloud services are set to be rich in constructs.
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Beyond API Compatibility: Understanding the Full Impact of Breaking Changes
In this article, we address the most contentious and misinterpreted parts of the SemVer standard, i.e backward compatibility and breaking changes. With the proliferation of SaaS APIs for Generative AI continuing, now is a good time for a retrospection on what constitutes a breaking change and how you can trade off backward compatibility and upgradability with modernization and iterability.
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From Compliance-First to Risk-First: Why Companies Need a Culture Shift
Transitioning from a "Compliancе-First" approach to a "Risk-First" mindset rеcognizеs that compliancе should not be viеwеd in isolation, but as a componеnt of a broadеr risk managеmеnt strategy.
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How to work with Your Auditors to Influence a Better Audit Experience
It is possible to influence a better audit experience, transforming it from a check-the-box exercise with little perceived value to one of true value that helps set you up for success, and with way less pain. This article explores how to experiment with adding agility into audit work while auditing a client, which can lead to better outcomes for you and your auditors.
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From Dependency to Autonomy: Building an In-House E-signing Service
While many companies rely on third-party services, there’s a growing realization that an in-house solution can offer more control, flexibility, and cost savings. In this article, we’ll delve into how to build an e-signing microservice.
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Optimizing Resource Utilization: the Benefits and Challenges of Bin Packing in Kubernetes
Optimizing Kubernetes usage is an important part of a responsible cloud strategy. Bin packing is an effective strategy for maximizing the usage of each node.
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Distributed Transactions at Scale in Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB supports transactions without sacrificing performance or availability. Akshat Vig explains how DynamoDB introduced TransactGetItems and TransactWriteItems for atomic operations, proving full ACID support in distributed transactions.
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Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility
Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users.
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Domain-Driven Cloud: Aligning Your Cloud Architecture to Your Business Model
Domain-Driven Cloud (DDC) is an approach for creating your organization’s cloud architecture based on your business model. Based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and the architecture principle of high cohesion and low coupling, this article introduces DDC including the technical and human benefits of aligning your cloud architecture to the bounded contexts in your business model.
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Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI
There’s an increasing concern about the energy use and corresponding carbon emissions of generative AI models. And while the concerns may be overhyped, they still require attention, especially as generative AI becomes integrated into our modern life. Factors such as model architecture, transparency and quantization of models are required to decrease carbon emission from AI systems.
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Monitoring Critical User Journeys in Azure
Flowe explains how they combine metrics from many sources together in Azure to monitor Critical User Journeys and prevent downtime for a critical application.