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AWS Control Tower

Are you planning your journey to AWS and want to have a well architected design which is recommended by AWS ? Or do you have multiple AWS accounts and you are having nightmares managing the complex environment ? Xerris recommends its customers to deploy AWS control

Migration

Migration Evaluator to assist Cloud Migrations

When Xerris helps customers migrate to the cloud, we definitely need to build out a business case to prove out the value that the migration effort will create. This is will start with an on-premises inventory discovery. We have installed the Agentless collector to

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Getting Started with the Database Migration Service

One of the most exciting services offer by AWS is the Database Migration Service (DMS). This service helps you rapidly move your on-prem databases into the cloud with minimal effort and downtime. Most companies have many relational databases that they'd like to move to

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Benchmarking Java vs. C# in AWS Lambda

Java and C# are both available as runtime languages for AWS Lambda. Both are object oriented, implement garbage collection and are a top choice for serious software developers. This article will be comparing a simple compute workload written in both languages and to see

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AWS DotNet Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors (C#, CDK)

This article will quickly demonstrate how to configure DotNet Lambda Functions to be powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors and review the results found. Graviton2 Lambda Overview AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors offer up to 34% better price performance over x86-based Lambda

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AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 Processors (Java, CDK)

This article will present a demonstration illustrating the price performance gains to be had by the newly released AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2. AWS Lambda functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processors offer up to 34% better price performance over x86-based Lambda functions.

High School Internship @ Xerris

Throughout the summer I have had the privilege of interning at Xerris where I have learned more information than I learned in a full school year. I was given the opportunity to work with clients from both the developer and scrum master point of

High School Internship @ Xerris

Internships are tricky. You never know what you are truly getting into. I had prepared all year to land an internship and with all my hard work I landed the perfect opportunity at Xerris. Not only did I improve my skills as a developer,

Creating an AWS Serverless Java 11 Application with CDK (Lambda, S3, DynamoDb, API Gateway)

You will see how Lambdas can interact with cloud resources such as S3 Buckets and DynamoDB. With API Gateway, you can allow external calls to these services as a web based client would do. At Xerris, we help organizations with their digital transformation efforts

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Getting started with AWS, Java 11 (Amazon Corretto), Eclipse and AWS Toolkit

This article will help get a developer set up to develop in Java 11 in their own AWS environment from scratch. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit(OpenJDK). It is certified as compatible with the Java

Architecture

Software Quality the Xerris Way

At Xerris, we pride ourselves on writing quality software. This article explores how we approach, practice, teach and mentor software development and software quality.

Architecture

How Microservices Create Major Development & Business Advantages

Why look to implement Microservices? There's business advantages for it. This article explores those advantages.

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AWS Aurora Serverless V2

Aurora Serverless v2 is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration of Amazon Aurora. This is a very interesting offering by AWS and is for those who need a relational database and want to have a serverless approach at the same time. It scales database workloads to

Automation

Best Practices Guide to Digital Transformation

As digital technologies profoundly reshape every industry around the world, many companies have implemented efforts to capitalize on trends or to simply keep up with competitors

Architecture

Microservices: A Key Ingredient to a Digital First World

While monolithic systems have their place in software architecture, in today's agile environment, a company that relies solely on a monolithic system may not be able to adapt to rapid change and stay ahead of the competition.

Technology

Modern & Future Technology on the Oil & Gas Technology Curve

Is your energy business up to modern standards in technology? Are you future ready? Explore the technologies on the leading edge of your business

Machine Learning

How to Fix Data Silos

Your data teams are talented, motivated, and hard working, and that’s awesome. But are data silos making things harder for them and wasting their valuable time?

IoT

IOT Use Cases to Advance Business Operations

Why is The Global IoT Market Exploding? It’s Good for BusinessThe truth is, we’re already surrounded by the Internet of Things (IoT). Who doesn’t know Siri, Alexa,

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Critical Retail Business Technology Solutions for 2021-2025

With so much technology to choose from, however, a business might not know where to start or how to move forward. For this reason, we offer this guide to help

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Cost Saving Solutions Enabled by Technology

Technology investments can, many times, end up paying for themselves due to the cost savings and efficiencies they bring about.

Logistics

Modern & Future Technologies on the Logistics Tech Curve

To stay on top of logistics technology trends, we have put together this article to to help you understand just some of the important technologies in this space and potentially where your company sits on the logistics tech curve.

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DynamoDB Introduction Hands On With GSI and LSI

DynamoDB We will be illustrating the basics of a Global Secondary Index(GSI) and a Local Secondary Index(LSI). This article is designed to illustrate the creation of 2 DynamoDB

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DynamoDB Introduction

AWS’s DynamoDB is a NoSQL database. It is also part of Amazon’s serverless offering meaning that you don’t have to carry the administrative burden of operating a

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Creating an AWS Serverless C# DotNet Application (S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambdas(C-Sharp) and CDK)

Often it can be daunting to create your first AWS Serverless application. This article will go through the basics of creating a serverless application with fundamental AWS services such as API Gateway, Lambdas, S3 Buckets, and DynamoDB. These will all be deployed using Cloud

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Getting Started with AWS, Visual Studio and AWS Toolkit

AWS has been running Microsoft Workloads on AWS for over 12 years, longer than any other cloud provider. Visual Studio is an excellent tool to develop and test your application code. In this article, we assume you have nothing regarding your current configuration. We