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…

Scaling to Billions of Requests a Day with AWS

By Hubert Chen

Serverless Architectures with Java 8, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB — Part 2

By Brent Rabowsky, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS

Welcome to the second post in this two-part series about building serverless architectures on AWS, with emphasis on…

Serverless Architectures with Java 8, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB — Part 1

By Brent Rabowsky, Startup Solutions Architect, AWS

In a startup or any other company that must do fast prototyping and frequent production releases, serverless…

Triggering Lambda Functions via Text Messages

by Sunil Mallya, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Time is the most critical component in the startup equation. Startups should maximize their time with customers and focus on building a better product, not spending…

What Startups Should Know Before Choosing a CDN

By Rohit Jain, Solutions Architect, AWS
Thanks to Jarrod Guthrie (Sr. Product Manager, AWS) for his contribution.

Performance of a website or application is one of the key factors today for…