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Using Serverless WebSockets to Enable Real-Time Messaging

This article reviews some of the most common live-user experiences with examples, discusses event-driven architectures to support real-time updates, and introduces common technology choices.

Matthew O’Riordan
on Dec 01, 2022
DevOps

CloudFormation or Terraform: Which Iac Platform is the Best Fit for You?

CloudFormation and Terraform are two of the most popular IaC frameworks available. In this article learn which framework will work best for your use cases.

Omer Hamerman
on Nov 14, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

How to Migrate an Oracle Database to MySQL Using AWS Database Migration Service

Data migration efforts are typically taken up for database consolidation, cost considerations, or migrating on-prem databases to a cloud platform. In this article, author Deepak Vohra discusses the details of migrating a local database to MySQL database on the cloud, using AWS Database Migration Service.

Deepak Vohra
on Sep 07, 2022
Cloud

Building Workflows with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions use a state machine to represent the workflow. A workflow consists of a set of tasks, each of which represents a discrete activity to be performed. Each task is defined by a state of the state machine. In this article, we will learn about the main concepts of AWS Step Functions and apply those to build a workflow for a sample business process: Order Fulfillment.

Pratik Das
on Sep 01, 2022
AI, ML & Data Engineering

API Friction Complicates Hunting for Cloud Vulnerabilities. SQL Makes it Simple

APIs can tell you everything about your cloud infrastructure, but they're hard to use and work in different ways. What if you could write simple SQL queries that call APIs for you and put results into a database? Steampipe, an open-source project that maps APIs to Postgres foreign tables, makes that dream come true. It's hard enough to reason over data. Acquiring it should be easy, and now it is.

Jon Udell
on Jul 06, 2022
Cloud

A Recipe to Migrate and Scale Monoliths in the Cloud

In this article, I want to present a simple cloud architecture that can allow an organization to take monolithic applications to the cloud incrementally without a dramatic change in the architecture. We will discuss the minimal requirements and basic components to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud.

Luciano Mammino
on May 13, 2022
Cloud

Serverless Solution to Offload Polling for Asynchronous Operation Status Using Amazon S3

This article proposes a solution to redirect the polling part to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - a highly available, scalable, and secured object storage service managed by Amazon Web Services public cloud provider (AWS). It will present a serverless implementation using AWS Lambda functions, but this is not mandatory if you want to use S3.

Cristian Gherghinescu
on Nov 01, 2021
Architecture & Design

Microsoft's Low-Code Strategy Paints a Target on UIPath and the Other RPA Companies

Microsoft is investing big in the low code space and has put together a collection of products that is hard for other companies to match, capped recently by the announcement of PowerFX. The target in their sights is the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) companies such as UIPath, Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism who are closing big deals with big enterprises.

Doug Hudgeon
on Jun 01, 2021 3
Cloud

Why AWS Lambda Pricing Has to Change for the Enterprise

AWS Lambda users pay only when their code is run. This can result in massive cost savings over long-running workloads. The advantages start to disappear quickly when AWS Lambda is employed for batch processing. Enterprises can gain significantly from the scalability of FaaS - yet a price comparison between EC2, Lambda, and Fargate, the AWS-managed container service, reveals an ugly truth.

Eoin Shanaghy
on Apr 08, 2021
Cloud

The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes

At QCon in March, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Red Hat, gave a talk on the evolution of distributed systems with Kubernetes. You might have an answer to that, and Ibryam has one too. At the end of the article, you will find out what he thinks the answer will be.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Mar 24, 2021 1
Development

InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year

As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.

Leandro Guimarães Arthur Casals Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Johan Janssen Manuel Pais Renato Losio Shane Hastie Steef-Jan Wiggers Thomas Betts
on Dec 28, 2020
Culture & Methods

Q&A on the Book Competing with Unicorns

The book Competing with Unicorns by Jonathan Rasmusson explores the culture of tech unicorns like Google, Amazon, and Spotify, and dives into the techniques and practices that they use to develop software.

Ben Linders Jonathan Rasmusson
on Nov 09, 2020