Aws

When designing Workiva’s durable messaging system we took a hard look at using Amazon’s Kinesis as the message storage and delivery mechanism. At first glance, Kinesis has a feature set that looks like it can solve any problem: it can store terabytes of data, it can replay old messages, and it can support multiple message consumers. But if you dig a little deeper you will find that Kinesis is well suited for a very particular use case, and if your application doesn’t fit this use case, Kinesis may be a lot more trouble than it’s worth. ...

Here it is. My version of the S3 static site. This one is publishable through CloudFormation and uses CodeCommit and CodeBuild to regenerate and publish the site with every push to the host Git repository. Any change to the CodeCommit Git repository automatically triggers a build through CodeCommit. This build runs the Hugo static site generator on your repo and syncs the results to an S3 bucket configured for serving a static site. ...

Amazon’s Flow Framework provides a high-level SDK for interacting with the Amazon Simple Workflow service (SWF). SWF is a managed service that helps developers build, run and monitor parallel or sequential asynchronous workloads. SWF reliably commits your workflow’s state to durable storage, allowing you to focus on your business logic rather than on the complex coordination of distributed services. Writing an application with the flow framework can be divided into the following steps: ...