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March 2024

Building Serverless Apps with the AWS CDK Using TypeScript

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) lets you build serverless applications with the expressive power of a programming language like TypeScript. The CDK defines cloud infrastructure in code and deploys via AWS CloudFormation. In this post, we will build a Lambda function, an AWS Gateway API, and an S3 bucket to upload CSV files. The API will take requests in JSON and seamlessly convert them to CSV format. We will use the AWS CDK in TypeScript to reliably deploy our app through AWS CloudFormation. Ready?

Securing Access: A Guide to Implementing API Keys in AWS API Gateway

Implementing an API gateway API key is key to securing your APIs. In this guide, you’ll learn to generate and apply these keys, ensuring your AWS API gateway effectively authenticates and processes authorized client requests. We’ll dive into setup procedures, management tips, and security best practices to help you maintain robust access control. Get ready to fortify your services’ entry points.

Making the Leap from Azure to Codemagic

This article was origninally published here. In this article, we’re spilling the beans on why we switched from Azure to Codemagic and showing you exactly how to supercharge your CI/CD game. We’re covering the entire spectrum — from compiling and creating release notes to testing and deployment. Let’s rewind a bit to our iOS developers’ struggles. Our CI process (think builds, tests, and coverage) was taking a chunky 40–50 minutes.

BigQuery vs. Redshift: Which One Should You Choose?

Considering BigQuery vs. Redshift for your data warehousing needs? This guide is for you. Both BigQuery and Redshift stand as leading cloud data warehouse solutions each offering a multitude of features catering to multiple use cases. Google’s BigQuery offers seamless scalability and performance within its cloud platform, while Amazon’s Redshift provides great parallel processing and tuning options.

How to Load Data from AWS S3 to Snowflake

According to a study by Statista, the cloud storage market was valued at $90.17 billion in 2022 and will reach a value of $472.47 billion by 2030. These figures indicate a growing shift toward cloud computing and data storage solutions. A typical scenario in modern data management involves data transfer from cloud storage to cloud-based computing platforms. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is among the go-to options for the former, and businesses trust Snowflake for the latter.

Set your Data in Motion with Confluent on Google Cloud

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion – designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, organizations can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital front-end customer experiences and transitioning to sophisticated, real-time, software-driven backend operations.

Achieve faster time to value with data observability and FinOps for BigQuery

Right now, 88% of companies surveyed are failing to achieve optimal price/performance for their analytics workloads. Why? They don’t have the staff, their skilled engineers spend too much time doing toilsome work, and optimizing data workloads for performance and efficiency. With this in mind, Unravel is hosting a virtual event to help you leverage Unravel to achieve productivity, performance, and cost efficiency with BigQuery.

Confluent announces general availability of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, simplifying stream processing to power next-gen apps

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, a leading cloud-native, serverless Flink service is now available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Confluent's fully managed, cloud-native service for Flink helps customers build high-quality data streams for data pipelines, real-time applications, and analytics.

From Theory to Practice: Real-World Applications of Cloud Platform Integration

Many companies talk about cloud integration in a theoretical way. But cloud technologies aren’t theoretical. They’re a rapidly growing segment of technology that’s changing the way businesses operate. In the following article, we move from theory to practice so you can have a more realistic vision of what to expect when you move more of your on-site tech to the cloud.

Top 7 AWS ETL Tools in 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) ETL refers to a cloud-based set of tools and services that help extract data from different sources, make it usable, and store it in a way that makes it easy to analyze and make decisions based on it. AWS ETL tools offer a unique advantage for businesses seeking to streamline their data processes. These tools are efficient, scalable, and adaptable, making them ideal for a wide range of industries, from healthcare and finance to retail and beyond.

The Snowflake Government & Education Data Cloud

In order to deliver on their missions, public agencies and departments must modernize IT to improve citizen services, streamline operational inefficiencies, drive research and innovation, and enable data collaboration across and beyond organizational lines. Unfortunately, the ability of public sector organizations to generate value from data is hindered by several challenges, including technical delays caused by legacy IT infrastructure, policy roadblocks, and institutional status quos. The public sector needs a protected, scalable, and flexible platform to centralize, govern, and securely share mission-critical data.

What is RAG? Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is an AI framework and powerful approach in NLP (Natural Language Processing) where generative AI models are enhanced with external knowledge sources and retrieval-based mechanisms. These appended pieces of outside knowledge provide the model with accurate, up-to-date information that supplements the LLM’s existing internal representation of information. As the name suggests, RAG models have a retrieval component and a generation component.

Driving Profitability through Cloud Adoption

What does it take for an architecture, engineering, or construction business to be profitable? Many look toward aggressive growth and expansion, either by geography or acquisition or both. However, growth requires significant spending on resources from new employees to acquisitions, and it takes time to see a return on your investment.

7 Compelling Reasons to Choose Cloud BPM (Business Process Management)

As business leaders cautiously navigate the uncertainties of 2024, marked by the mainstreaming of AI, heightened regulatory oversight, cost pressures, and supply chain disruptions, the need for agile and efficient business processes has never been more pressing. Amidst this backdrop of uncertainty, cloud BPM shines as a beacon of opportunity, offering organizations a transformative approach to streamline operations, drive innovation, and achieve better business outcomes.