Collin Smith - Xerris Insights

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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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.

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

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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

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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