Automating Infrastructure on AWS Using Terraform

Ayush_SinghalDecember 14, 2018AWS, DevOps

In this blog, I am going to showcase how to create an infrastructure on AWS using Terraform. Let’s have a brief introduction of Terraform before jumping to the particular use-case. What is Terraform? Terraform is an infrastructure provisioning tool created by Hashicorp. It allows you to describe your infrastructure as code, creates execution plans that outline exactly what will happen when you run your code, builds Continue Reading

DEPLOYING A PLAY APPLICATION(SCALA) WITH ANSIBLE ON AWS

Sachin SlathiaOctober 12, 2018AWS, DevOps

In this blog, I will be demonstrating how to create an AWS instance and how to deploy your play application on that AWS instance using Ansible. First let’s see how to make an AWS instance:- Login to AWS console Click on launch instance on top and select the free instance Select the machine which you want to set up. Click on Configure Instance Details -> Continue Reading

Amazon DynamoDB: Core Components

Nancy JainAugust 22, 2018August 24, 2018Amazon, AWS, AWS Services, Database, NoSql, Reactive Application, TutorialAWS, AWSDynamoDb, CoreComponents, DynamoDB, nosql

DynamoDB is a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a NoSQL database, which supports key-value and document data structures. In this blog, we will be discussing Core components of DynamoDb. Features of DynamoDb: It is a fully managed NoSQL database. It can store & retrieve any amount of data, and can serve any amount of traffic. To maintain fast performance, it distributes data Continue Reading

Distributed Transactions and Saga Patterns

Ayush PrasharJuly 18, 2018Amazon EC2, Apache Kafka, AWS, AWS Services, Cassandra, couchbase, Java, Microservices, Scala

In a Knolx session organized by Knoldus, we discussed the idea of following Saga Patterns. For that to be more accessible, I’d like to share the session with the help of this blog. Service-oriented architecture has given us enough advantages to be a predominant architecture in our Industry, but it can’t be all sunshine and rainbows. There are use cases where monoliths are not only Continue Reading

Create AWS Lambda with ease

Akhil VijayanMay 7, 2018July 19, 2018Amazon, AWS, AWS Services, Java, Scala, Web ServicesAWS Lambda, AWS SDK

Hi readers, this is my second blog on AWS lambda, I covered the basics in my previous blogs. Now we will focus on the implementation part. Before starting, please keep a check on these things: Prerequisite Setup your AWS account, click here Understanding what AWS Lambda is? click here All set let’s start.

Amazon ES – Secure your cluster from anonymous users! #2

Divya DuaApril 16, 2018August 9, 2018Amazon, Amazon EC2, AWS, AWS Services, Database, Elasticsearch, fulltextsearch, NoSql, Scala, TutorialAWS, AWS Services, Database, elasticsearch, nosql, technology

In the previous blog, we have learned how to create a domain on Amazon ES and also how to create an index using Curl on the cluster. Now, let’s just look how we can control access to Amazon ES Domain. One of the key benefits of using Amazon ES is that you can utilize AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control access to your Continue Reading

Amazon ES – setting up the cluster! #1

Divya DuaApril 15, 2018August 9, 2018Amazon, AWS, AWS Services, cluster, Database, Elasticsearch, fulltextsearch, NoSql, TutorialAWS, Database, elasticsearch, Introduction, learning, technology

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud services platform, providing compute power, database storage, content delivery, security options and other functionality to allow businesses to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Amazon Elasticsearch is one of the services provided by AWS. Amazon ES Amazon Elasticsearch Service, also called Amazon ES, is a managed service that makes it easy to create a domain, Continue Reading

Unveiling The Mystery Of Serverless

Shivangi GuptaMarch 29, 2018Amazon, AWS, AWS Services, Cloud, ScalaAWS, azure, server, serverless, serverless architecture, serverless computing

In this blog, we will explore about Serverless and why it is trending so much? Serverless, is itself a self-explanatory word, means there are no servers. But, is it really true? No, it is not. Serverless does not mean the absence of servers. There are servers actually, it’s just that we don’t have to manage them. All the infrastructure is provided by companies like AWS, Google, Azure Continue Reading

Introduction to AWS Step Function

Aakash JainMarch 26, 2018July 18, 2018Amazon, Amazon EC2, AWS, AWS ServicesAWS, lambda, step function

Step Function is state-machine based workflow coordination as a service provided by AWS. AWS provides a straightforward way for application developers to create an execution workflow to coordinate the use of multiple AWS Lambda or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) components in distributed applications running on the cloud. Before digging into AWS Step function, let’s take an example. You want to send an automated verification message to the new user Continue Reading

Terraform: Enabling developer to create and manage deployment through code

Simarpreet Kaur MongaMarch 14, 2018Amazon, Architecture, AWS, Cloud, DevOpsDesign, technology

In this blog post, We will walk you through Terraform which is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform enables the developers to properly manage the infrastructure through code. The set of files used to describe infrastructure in Terraform is simply known as a Terraform configuration. These files have extension .tf. Configuration files describe to Terraform the components needed to Continue Reading

A WalkThrough with AWS Lambda

Akhil VijayanMarch 4, 2018July 19, 2018AWS, AWS Services, JavaAWS, AWS Lambda, SAM

Serverless Architecture Serverless is an application framework for building a serverless application without having to worry about managing infrastructures. It is based on the principle of third party service (BaaS) and on custom codes which run on a container(FaaS). Serverless architecture doesn’t mean we don’t have a server. With the serverless architecture, we still have a server to run our application, it’s just that Continue Reading

Introduction to AWS DynamoDB

Akshansh JainMarch 4, 2018July 19, 2018AWS, AWS Services, DatabaseAWS, Database, DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a database service provided by Amazon. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data without worrying about hardware provisioning, setup & configuration, replication, software patching, or cluster scaling. It mostly takes care of these things itself while also providing options to configure these Continue Reading

Amazon Rekognition: Welcome to Visual Recognition

Joseph RossJuly 6, 2017June 13, 2018AWS, AWS Services, ML, AI and Data Engineering, TutorialAWS, AWS Recognition, Image recognition, recognition

We have always been captivated <3 and mesmerized 😮 by sci-fi movies like James Bond, and we dreamt of those technologies to become reality one day but here we are in the world of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning living at the edge of the Technology driven ecosystem. Visual Recognition has been there around for so long but there didn’t exist any product which handled Continue Reading

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