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Single Table Design with AWS DynamoDB and the Inverted Index

Overview Maybe people love the concept of DynamoDB as a serverless option to storing data. However, often people associate DynamoDB as only a Key Value store. This is where the single table design steps in and can make this happen. The single table design

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 9 Jan 2023 • 7 min read
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Santa’s AWS Workshop! (A serverless event driven approach)

Santa's Workshop Santa is a very busy man and even he needs help organizing and coordinating his operation. This article will help illustrate how a serverless event driven approach can help him deliver toys more effectively given the amount of letters he receives from

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 9 Jan 2023 • 5 min read
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AWS Java Lambda accessing an AWS RDS MySQL Instance with CDK

In this article, we will see how to enable a Java Lambda access to an AWS RDS MySQL instance. Prerequisites: Set up your AWS RDS MySQL instance (See Creating an AWS RDS MySQL Database with MySQL WorkBench) This article will follow a similar approach

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 2 Jan 2023 • 4 min read
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Creating an AWS RDS MySQL Database with MySQL WorkBench

In application development there is little doubt that one of the most useful combinations is combining an object oriented language with a relational database. In this article, we will accomplish this through the following steps: Install the MySQL WorkBench database clientCreate an RDS MySQL

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 2 Jan 2023 • 4 min read
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AWS Java Lambda accessing an AWS RDS PostgreSQL Instance with CDK

In this article, we will see how to enable an AWS Java Lambda access to an AWS RDS PostgreSQL instance. Prerequisites: Set up your AWS RDS PostgreSQL instance (See Creating an AWS RDS PostgreSQL Database with pgAdmin ) This article will follow a similar approach

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 2 Jan 2023 • 4 min read
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Creating an AWS RDS PostgreSQL Database with pgAdmin

In application development there is little doubt that one of the most useful combinations is combining an object oriented language with a relational database. In this article, we will demonstrate this with the following steps: Install a Postgres pgAdmin database clientCreate an RDS Postgres

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 2 Jan 2023 • 4 min read
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Improving your Lambda ColdStart Performance with AWS Lambda SnapStart (13 - 15 times faster!)

AWS Lambda SnapStart is a new feature which helps reduce the startup latency for lambda functions running on Amazon Corretto Java 11 runtime. This helps reduce the cold starts that often come when lambdas are required to download reference data from S3 or initialize

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 28 Nov 2022 • 5 min read
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Spring Boot 2 Lambda Microservices

Spring boot is a popular Java framework designed to help facilitate stand-alone, production-grade Spring based applications that can “just run”. Many top companies use Spring Boot to support their backends including Netflix, Udemy, Trivago. Netflix adopted Spring Boot as its core Java framework. Spring

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 18 Nov 2022 • 3 min read

Improving your Sustainability Posture by running Well-Architected Workloads on AWS

According to KPMG’s “KPMG 2021 CEO Outlook”(2021), investor scrutiny of a companies’ ESG is intensifying with 58% of CEOs feeling stakeholder demands(investors, regulators and customers) for increased reporting and transparency on ESG issues. For many companies, the sustainability goals are part

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 26 Sep 2022 • 7 min read
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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 8 Feb 2022 • 2 min read
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 12 Oct 2021 • 5 min read
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 5 Oct 2021 • 5 min read
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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.

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 29 Sep 2021 • 5 min read

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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 26 Aug 2021 • 8 min read
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 25 Aug 2021 • 6 min read
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 16 May 2021 • 3 min read
DynamoDB Introduction Hands On With GSI and LSI
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 13 Mar 2021 • 17 min read
DynamoDB Introduction
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 7 Mar 2021 • 5 min read
aws

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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 3 Feb 2021 • 9 min read
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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

  • Collin Smith
Collin Smith 3 Feb 2021 • 6 min read
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