Choosing the Right Programming Language for Your Startup

If you ever want to be the center of controversy in a room packed with developers, declare that one programming language is better than another. Banners will be raised and battle cries will be heard from various fiefdoms…

Using Containers to Build a Microservices Architecture

We’ll explore how many of the characteristics…

Practical VPC Design

301 level guidance from an AWS Solutions Architect

Few areas of cloud infrastructure are more important to get right from the start than the IP address layout of one’s Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC design has far-reaching…

A Better Dev/Test Experience: Docker and AWS

Here’s a familiar story: You’ve been tasked with creating…

Running Services Using Docker and Amazon EC2 Container Service

Let’s see scheduling, state management…

Hiring a Cloud Engineer? Questions to Ask and What You Should Hear

In this blog post, I provide tips for hiring an experienced cloud engineer who can help you run your startup or small business efficiently. I use the term “cloud engineer” as more of a quality/virtue than a position…

The tale of two messaging platforms: Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis

Guest post by Parviz Deyhim, Data & Analytics Practice Lead, Datapipe

Streaming data processing has become increasingly prevalent. As a result, different platforms and frameworks have…

A Guide to Amazon Simple Notification Service Mobile Push Self-registration for iOS

Part 1: Lets get Pushy!

Mobile applications that do not send push notifications are few and far between these days. The ability to engage with…

Internet of Beer: Introducing Simple Beer Service

By Todd Varland, Jeremy Wallace, and Henrik Johansson
Solutions Architects, AWS

Filling a need — literally!