Category: News

Amazon’s Exabyte-Scale Migration from Apache Spark to Ray on Amazon EC2

July 25, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Large-scale, distributed compute framework migrations are not for the faint of heart. There are backwards-compatibility constraints to maintain, performance expectations to meet, scalability limits to overcome, and the omnipresent risk of introducing breaking changes to production. This all becomes especially troubling if you happen to…

AI Web App Generator to Make Apps in Minutes

July 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Imagine creating a fully functional web app in minutes, without writing a single line of code. Are you tired of spending countless hours coding your web applications? Is there a faster, more efficient way to develop robust business software? Have you ever wondered how AI…

Getting Started with Cilium Service Mesh on Amazon EKS

July 17, 2024 By Mark Otto 0

Cilium is an open source solution for providing, securing, and observing network connectivity between workloads, powered by the revolutionary kernel technology called extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). eBPF enables the dynamic insertion of security, visibility, and networking logic into the Linux kernel. Cilium provides high-performance…

Chat about your AWS account resources with Amazon Q Developer

July 14, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

The traditional way customers had to interact with AWS account resources was through the AWS Management Console, SDKs, or command line interface (CLI) calls. However, these methods do not provide a quick way to gather information about AWS resources without writing scripts or navigating thought…

AWS announces workspace context awareness for Amazon Q Developer chat

July 13, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the release of workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat. By including @workspace in your prompt, Amazon Q Developer will automatically ingest and index all code files, configurations, and project structure, giving the chat comprehensive context across your…

ProofHub vs. Trello: A Head-to-Head Comparison

July 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Finding the right project management tool can feel overwhelming. You want something intuitive, powerful, and budget-friendly. You might have narrowed your search to the showdown: ProofHub vs. Trello.  But how do you know which one best suits your team’s needs? Modern projects are complex. Many…

Refactoring to Serverless: From Application to Automation

July 4, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Serverless technologies not only minimize the time that builders spend managing infrastructure, they also help builders reduce the amount of application code they need to write. Replacing application code with fully managed cloud services improves both the operational characteristics and the maintainability of your applications…

Modernize your Java application with Amazon Q Developer

July 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Many organizations have critical legacy Java applications that are increasingly difficult to maintain. Modernizing these applications is a necessary, daunting, and risky task that takes the focus off of creating new value or features. This includes undocumented code, outdated frameworks and libraries, security vulnerabilities, a…