AWS

Lambda architecture is a design to keep in mind while designing big data platforms. To understand what lambda architecture provides, it is important to understand what is expected of a big data application platform. You can find a multitude of articles online that will give you…

In part 1 of this showdown, I discussed how we, at Zappos, replicated a key website service to different AWS regions for performance purposes. In this part, I’ll be discussing how and why we decided to not use AWS API Gateway (APIG) and instead opted to use our own Node.js…