How to integrate your AWS event-based system with external/legacy systems using RESTful APIs
I recently helped an AWS customer design a new system that had very specific non-functional requirements regarding how it integrates with external or 3rd party systems. The internal part of the system was developed as an event-drivensystem, but for these
Easy and practical example that shows when to use choreography and orchestration as modes of interaction in a microservices architecture, running on AWS Serverless
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Legacy corporates are abound, and they see the Internet unicorns stealing their lunch. They know that if you cant beat 'em, then join 'em. So they also want some of the fancy stuff that the Google's and Facebook's are doing, hoping that
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Tldr:
Making Dilbert proud
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About 3 years ago I learnt some basic Python, which I've used almost exclusively to build back-end APIs on AWS Serverless, mostly Lambda. This includes a monitoring solution on AWS, an event-driven API
About 3 years ago I learnt some basic Python, which I've used almost exclusively to build back-end APIs on AWS Serverless, mostly Lambda. This includes a monitoring solution on AWS, an event-driven API
How to integrate your AWS event-based system with external/legacy systems using RESTful APIs