Govern AWS EC2 instances and On-Premises server all within Azure control plane — In this article we are going to take a look at an example of how to get started with Azure Arc enabled servers and see what this control plane looks like from within the Azure portal. Azure Arc simplifies governance and management of servers, Kubernetes clusters and data services such…

Understanding the options available for designing for high availability with Amazon Aurora. — Amazon Aurora has quite a few options that enable the implementation of a highly available and performant data layer in your application. However, due to the subtle differences in each option, it can sometimes be a bit challenging to find which options suit your use case. In this article, we…

In this article, we will look at a few of the common misconceptions about the Saga pattern and see how the Saga pattern can be implemented using AWS serverless services. The Saga pattern is a failure management pattern that helps establish consistency in distributed applications, and coordinates transactions between multiple…

Mike, thanks for your comments. I agree with your comments regarding Lambda and ECS/EKS. Very informative.

In this post we are going to look at a typical highly available 3 tier architecture implemented on AWS. We will look into compute options, load balancing, a few AWS database services and finally see how we can iteratively transition to serverless architecture. The N-tier architecture is a well-known architecture…

I have no doubt you have heard of data warehouse and data lake, but what about the term lake house? A portmanteau of data warehouse and data lake, but what does it really mean and how would you explain it to your colleagues or customers? …

AMA, WAD, LAD, MMA, OMS, Telegraf or Log Analytics. Do you know which one or combination of which to use for what you need to achieve? If you do then congratulations and well done. Else, I hope this article can help you understand all these different agents so that you…

Choosing the right technology for the type of workload is critical and is especially important when it comes to data storage. There are many storage service offerings in AWS and knowing what to choose can be a bit tricky. This article aims to give you a starting point for consideration…

This is a compilation of numbers and key things you need to remember as one of the preparation going into the exam. Use it as quick reference guide throughout your exam preparation time. Review it the night before your exam. To top it off, review it again one last time…