All posts by Annik Stahl

Architecture Monthly Magazine: Open Source

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Architecture Monthly Magazine - Open SourceAccording to the Open Source Initiative, the term “open source” was created at a strategy session held in 1998 in Palo Alto, California, shortly after the announcement of the release of the Netscape source code. Stakeholders at that session realized that this announcement created an opportunity to educate and advocate for the superiority of an open development process.

We’ve witnessed big changes in open source in the past 22 years and this year-end issue of Architecture Monthly looks at a few trends, including the shift from businesses only consuming open source to contributing to it. You’ll also going to learn how AWS open source projects are one of the ways we’re making technology less cost-prohibitive and more accessible to everyone.

In this month’s Open Source issue

  • Ask an Expert: Ricardo Sueiras, Principal Advocate for Open Source at AWS
  • Blog: How Amazon Retail Systems Run Machine Learning Predictions with Apache Spark using Deep Java Library
  • Case Study: Absa Transforms IT and Fosters Tech Talent Using AWS
  • Reference Architecture: Running WordPress on AWS
  • Blog: Simplifying Serverless Best Practices with Lambda Powertools
  • Whitepaper: Modernizing the Amazon Database Infrastructure: Migrating from Oracle to AWS
  • Quick Start: Magento on AWS
  • Related Videos: Wix, Viber, UC Santa Cruz, & Redfin

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Architecture Monthly Magazine: AWS Solutions

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Architecture Monthly - October 2020 - AWS SolutionsFor October’s issue of AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine, we decided to do a deep dive into the AWS Solutions Library, a virtual treasure trove of cloud-based solutions for dozens of technical and business problems. Whether you want to combine pre-built, well-architected multi-service patterns to create your own solution, deploy vetted architecture directly into your AWS account, or get help deploying vetted architecture from AWS Competency Partners, we can help. Our expert runs us though the various offerings you can take advantage of, and some of our other guest writers will go more deeply into the individual options.

In this month’s AWS Solutions issue

  • Ask an Expert: Tom Begley, Manager, AWS Solutions Builder
  • Customer Success Story: App8: Helping Restaurants Succeed during COVID-19
  • AWS Solutions Implementations: Detailed architectures, a deployment guide, and instructions for both automated and manual deployment
  • AWS Solutions Constructs: Building faster and more confidently with vetted architecture patterns
  • AWS Solutions Consulting Offers: Enhancing the AWS Solutions Library to address customer needs
  • Related Videos: Watch what AWS Solutions can do for you

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AWS Architecture Monthly Magazine: Robotics

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Architecture Monthly: RoboticsSeptember’s issue of AWS Architecture Monthly issue is all about robotics. Discover why iRobot, the creator of your favorite (though maybe not your pet’s favorite) little robot vacuum, decided to move its mission-critical platform to the serverless architecture of AWS. Learn how and why you sometimes need to test in a virtual environment instead of a physical one. You’ll also have the opportunity to hear from technical experts from across the robotics industry who came together for the AWS Cloud Robotics Summit in August.

Our expert this month, Matt Hansen (who has dreamed of building robots since he was a teen), gives us his outlook for the industry and explains why cloud will be an essential part of that.

In September’s Robotics issue

  • Ask an Expert: Matt Hansen, Principle Solutions Architect
  • Blog: Testing a PR2 Robot in a Simulated Hospital
  • Case Study: iRobot
  • Blog: Introduction to Automatic Testing of Robotics Applications
  • Case Study: Multiply Labs Uses AWS RoboMaker to Manufacture Individualized Medicines
  • Demos & Videos: AWS Cloud Robotics Summit (August 18-19, 2020)
  • Related Videos: iRobot and ZS Associates

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AWS Architecture Center: Your One-Stop Destination for Guidance & Resources

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Discovering relevant architecture-related content has been simplified and made easier with the newly updated and expanded AWS Architecture Center. Now you can browse, search, and even request reference architectures, architecture patterns, best practices, and prescriptive guidance all in one location.

The revamped Architecture Center is the only place where you can browse recommended guidance by the most relevant use cases for specific domains as well as view aggregated collections of content related to those domains in one location. We designed this aggregated experience to help you discover content you might not have known to look for in the past.

How can the Architecture Center help me?

Let’s say you’re looking for security guidance and content. Instead of having to visit several different AWS sites to find what you need (such as whitepapers, AWS Solutions, blog posts, etc.), it’s now all in one place. You’ll also see content most popular with other AWS customers.

From the Architecture Center homepage, in the Security Identity, & Compliance column, click any of the areas you’re interested and discover best practices and featured content.

Best Practices for Security, Identity, & Compliance

There are several other domains listed on the Architecture Center homepage—such as Analytics & Big Data, Machine Learning, and Databases—and we will be adding more domains and industries.

We want your input and ideas

If you can’t find what you’re looking for (or even if you’re not quite sure what you’re looking for), we’re giving you a direct line to us so that you can request content or let us know what’s missing. Look for the Didn’t find what you were looking for? Let us know link at the bottom of the Architecture Center homepage as well as under the Filter by: section on each domain page.

Didn't find what you were looking for? link

Your requests and ideas will help us decide what content we should add to that domain and even to create. So, don’t be shy—let us know if you’re just not finding what you need and we’ll do our best to help.

All the guidance and content you need in one place

The AWS Architecture Center can help you find the accurate and up-to-date information, helping you make the right decisions from the very beginning of your projects. It’s your one-stop destination that provides recommended guidance from AWS Solutions Architects while giving you insights into the architecture content read most often by other AWS customers. We’re making it easier to design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective cloud applications right from the start.

Dream11: Scaling a Fantasy Sports Platform with 5M Daily Active Users

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Founded in 2008, Dream11 is India’s leading sports-tech startup with a growing base of more than 45 million users playing multiple sports such as fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, and basketball.

Dream11 uses Amazon Aurora with Amazon ElastiCache to serve 1 million concurrent users within 50ms response time, serving at an average 3 million requests per minute (rpm), which can surge to 3X in a 30-second time span. In this video, we’ll be shedding some light on our architecture, along with our battle plan to handle transactions without locking. We’ll also talk about the features of Aurora and ElastiCache that helped Dream11 to handle 5 million daily active users with 4X growth YoY.

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Fundbox: Simplifying Ways to Query and Analyze Data by Different Personas

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Fundbox is a leading technology platform focused on disrupting the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by building the world’s first B2B payment and credit network. With Fundbox, sellers of all sizes can quickly increase average order volumes (AOV) and improve close rates by offering more competitive net terms and payment plans to their SMB buyers. With heavy investments in machine learning and the ability to quickly analyze the transactional data of SMB’s, Fundbox is reimagining B2B payments and credit products in new category-defining ways.

Learn how how the company simplified the way different personas in the organization query and analyze data by building a self-service data orchestration platform. The platform architecture is entirely serverless, which simplifies the ability to scale and adopt to unpredictable demand. The platform was built using AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Fargate, and other AWS Serverless managed services.

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