Container images for your serverless functions Lambda Support Container Images You can package your code and dependencies as a container image using tools such as the Docker CLI. You can then upload the image to a container registry such as Amazon Elastic Container Registry. You can now package and deploy Lambda functions as container…

What is Ledger? A ledger is a record-keeping system. A system for keeping business records includes capturing information, checking, recording, reviewing, and acting on the information. What is Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) ? Amazon QLDB is a fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log ‎owned by a “CENTRAL” trusted authority.

AWS Amplify for Static Web Hosting with SSL certificate Under 3mins What is AWS Amplify? AWS Amplify is an end-to-end solution that enables mobile and front-end web developers to build and deploy secure, scalable full stack applications, powered by AWS. With Amplify, you can configure app backends in minutes, connect them to your app…

Overview of Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with example Horizontal Pod Autoscaler: The Horizontal Pod Autoscaler automatically scales the number of Pods in a replication controller, deployment, replica set or stateful set based on observed CPU utilization (or custom metrics). Note that Horizontal Pod Auto-scaling does not apply to objects that can’t be scaled…

Overview of Backends For Frontends (BFF) Before we begin Let’s clear some basic understanding about Microservices, What is microservices? The microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, often an HTTP resource API…

Overview of design patterns for microservices. What is Microservice? Microservice architecture has become the de facto choice for modern application development. I like the definition given by “Martin Fowler”. In short, the microservice architectural style is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its…

MFEs — microservices approach for modern web. What is Micro Frontends? The idea behind Micro Frontends is to think about a website or web app as a composition of features which are owned by independent teams. Each team has a distinct area of business or mission it cares about and specialises in. …

What is GitOps? Guide to GitOps — Continuous Delivery for Cloud Native applications GitOps is a way to do Kubernetes cluster management and application delivery. It works by using Git as a single source of truth for declarative infrastructure and applications, together with tools ensuring the actual state of infrastructure…

Firecracker microVMs - Technology behind AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. What is Firecracker? Firecracker was built by developers at Amazon Web Services to enable services such as AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate to improve resource utilization and customer experience, while providing the security and isolation required of public cloud infrastructure. Firecracker is an…