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Building a Secure MCP Server on AWS for a Million-Company B2B Platform
We wanted to expose a B2B intelligence platform built on more than one million company profiles to an LLM client through an MCP server so a user can ask “find SaaS companies in Germany with 50-200 employees” and receive results through the LLM client. The engineering problem was: how do you make that workflow useful without creating an unsafe bridge between an LLM and production data?
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Using AWS Lambda Extensions to Run Post-Response Telemetry Flush
At Lead Bank, synchronous telemetry flushing caused intermittent exporter stalls to become user-facing 504 gateway timeouts. By leveraging AWS Lambda's Extensions API and goroutine chaining in Go, flush work is moved off the response path, returning responses immediately while preserving full observability without telemetry loss.
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Replacing Database Sequences at Scale without Breaking 100+ Services
The article discusses the challenges faced during a migration from a relational database to NoSQL, focusing on the importance of database sequences for unique identifiers. It outlines the development of a new sequence service using DynamoDB and a two-tier caching architecture.
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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts
Event-driven architecture helps banks decouple systems, scale services, and create clear activity trails. But it also introduces complexity, new failure modes, and operational challenges. Chris Tacey-Green explains where it adds value in banking systems and the practical patterns, such as inbox/outbox and stable event contracts, needed to make it reliable.
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Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
Multi-cloud event-driven architectures are now essential, not optional. With most organizations already multi-cloud, success depends on optimizing latency, ensuring resilience, and managing event consistency across providers. Key practices include code-level tuning, robust recovery policies, duplicate prevention, observability, and strong team readiness.
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Sandbox as a Service: Building an Automated AWS Sandbox Framework
This article outlines an automated AWS Sandbox Framework to provide secure, cost-controlled environments for innovation. It leverages AWS services like Control Tower and open-source tools to automate provisioning, enforce security policies, manage resource lifecycles, and optimize costs through automated cleanup and governance.
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Using Traffic Mirroring to Debug and Test Microservices in Production-Like Environments
Traffic mirroring has evolved from a network security tool to a robust method for debugging and testing microservices using real-world data. By safely duplicating production traffic to a shadow environment, teams can replicate elusive bugs, profile performance under actual load, validate new features, and detect regressions, ensuring that production remains isolated and user experiences intact.
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Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale
Learn how to design resilient event-driven systems that scale. Explore key patterns like shuffle sharding and decoupling queues to handle load spikes and failures. Understand common pitfalls like over-relying on retries and neglecting observability for robust, scalable architectures.
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Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x
In this article, Carlos Arguelles elaborates on how engineering productivity needs a shift as organizations scale. He shares examples from his time at Google and Amazon, explaining how some architectural decisions made at these companies shaped the way they develop software. Engineering productivity investments depend on inflection points, scale, controls, data, and tooling choices.
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Beyond Trends: A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right Message Broker
Choosing the right message broker for your application requires matching the appropriate technology with the messaging patterns needed. Message brokers can be broadly categorized as either stream-based or queue-based, each offering unique strengths and trade-offs.
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Elevate Developer Experience with Generative AI Capabilities on AWS
This is a summary of a talk I gave at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2024. I discussed the transformative potential of generative AI in enhancing developer experiences, particularly through AWS. I’ll introduce key tools like Amazon Bedrock, Code Review Assistant, Agentic Code Generation, and Code Summarization in this article.
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Optimizing Wellhub Autocomplete Service Latency: a Multi-Region Architecture
Every company wants fast, reliable, and low-latency services. Achieving these goals requires significant investment and effort. In this article, I will share how Wellhub invested in a multi-region architecture to achieve a low-latency autocomplete service.