Tag: #scalability

Why is Low-Code the Future of App Development?

September 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Low-code application development has been experiencing explosive growth in recent years, and it’s time you learned more about it. For as long as computers have been part of the workplace, application development has been a necessity for businesses of all kinds. So, a question on…

Figuring out if you should use React Server Components

August 2, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Understanding React Server Components — If you’ve struggled to get your head around the ideas involved with React Server Components, and Dan Abramov’s ‘let’s recreate RSCs from scratch’ went a little too deep, this is a good, high-level explanation of the fundamentals that explains what…

Exploring Fn::ForEach and Fn::FindInMap enhancements in AWS CloudFormation

August 1, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources, recently released a new language transform that enhances the core CloudFormation language. Today, we’ll be covering two more enhancements we’ve added since our initial release: Fn::FindInMap…

Balancing governance and agility with AWS CodeBuild

June 8, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction In my role I regularly have conversations with customers who want to enforce security and governance best practices while providing developers the flexibility and agility they need to innovate quickly. As you embrace DevSecOps, you likely seek to balance governance and agility in your…

How Cirrusgo enabled rapid resolution with Amazon DevOps Guru

May 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this blog, we will walk through how Cirrusgo used Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to quickly identify and resolve their operational issue related to database performance and reduce the impact on their business. This capability is offered by Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS which…

Fully Automated Deployment of an Open Source Mail Server on AWS

May 17, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Many AWS customers have the requirement to host their own email solution and prefer to operate mail severs over using fully managed solutions (e.g. Amazon WorkMail). While certainly there are merits to either approach, motivations for self-managing often include: full ownership and control need for…