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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

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Creating an AWS Data Lake and Real-Time Pipeline for Mobile App Analytics

IntroductionOrganizations that successfully generate business value from their data will outperform their peers. These leaders are able to do new types of analytics like machine learning over new sources like log files, data from click-streams, social media, and internet connected devices stored in data

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Cost-Effective Automated Testing

For many years software quality assurance (QA) teams tested software as a non-repeatable manual process. What they needed was a way to reliably replay an entire test suite, without human intervention, that quickly reports on the health of an application. With the introduction of

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Building Modern Data Warehouses with S3, Glue, and Athena: Part 3

Managing your resources in AWSIn the previous article we gave an overview of some of the resources you can use to set up a simple cloud-based data storage solution in AWS. In this last article we will see how we can create and manage

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Building Modern Data Warehouses with S3, Glue, and Athena: Part 2

Implementing your data warehouse in AWSIn the previous article we introduced cloud-based data storage solutions and the concept of lakehouses. Choosing a modern lakehouse approach gives you the flexibility to implement both a data lake and data warehouse using the same architecture. The data

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Building Modern Data Warehouses with S3, Glue, and Athena: Part 1

IntroductionWith the advancements in performance and accessibility the cloud has seen in recent years it is no longer necessary to build data warehouses using large monolithic databases and rigid schemas. It is now possible to simplify your operations, consolidate your data storage, and use

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AWS Timestream Introduction with Apple HealthKit, Grafana and AWS CDK

AWS Timestream is a managed time-series database. This makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day up to 1,000 times faster and at as little as 1/10th the cost of relational databases. It is designed for IOT, Devops

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Deploying your React App to AWS in 20 minutes with S3, CloudFront, and Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and CircleCI

Whether you are just starting to develop a simple react single page app or a large complex application, at some point you inevitably have to get it off your machine or local development environment and out into the real world. Today we are going

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Create both Development and Production-Ready AWS EKS Clusters using AWS CDK

‌ As a Xerris Solutions Architect, I sometimes get customers asking about how to maintain a Kurbernetes cluster in AWS the easiest way possible. Kubernetes is becoming the de-facto standard for running container workloads and provides many benefits over traditional virtual machine based architectures. It

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Scalable Deployment Automation Using AWS CDK

The world is embracing serverless computing, and organizations around the globe are benefiting with massive savings. Infinitely scalable, serverless computing is the epitome of “only pay for what you use.” With the rapid adoption of this computing model, how do development teams manage the

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Xerris Joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program

CALGARY, Alberta, October 13, 2020 - Today, Xerris announced it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program in the Service Engagement Model to gain additional access to Google Cloud resources and further cater to their customers’ Google Cloud-based needs. As a Google Cloud

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OpsGuru and Xerris partner to drive cloud migrations in Western Canada

‌VANCOUVER BASED OPSGURU AND CALGARY BASED XERRIS HAVE PARTNERED TO PROVIDE A MADE-IN-CANADA COMPETITOR TO AN INDUSTRY OTHERWISE DOMINATED BY US-BASED PROVIDERS. Canada - August 11, 2020: Until recently, if you were looking for an experienced provider of digital transformation, cloud migration, and app

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Xerris Achieves AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Accreditation

CALGARY, Alberta, June 25, 2020 - Today, Xerris announced that it has reached the second-highest tier in Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner network – AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. AWS is the largest provider of cloud computing services in the world. “We are incredibly proud of