Category: Architecture

In this post, you’ll learn how to implement Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) in your organization, based on best practices developed from experience with over 200 ADRs across multiple projects. You’ll also discover practical tips for streamlining architectural decision-making, see real-world examples from projects with teams ranging from 10 to over 100 members, and understand the common challenges in architecture decision-making and how ADRs can help address them.

In this post, we explore an intermediate strategy between the pilot light and the warm standby strategies: pilot light with reserved capacity. You can use this strategy to reserve compute capacity in a secondary Region while also limiting cost.

This blog post shows how you can use Amazon API Gateway—along with AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and other AWS services—to create a comprehensive and customizable APIM solution. This solution addresses the complex requirements of large enterprises managing APIs at scale.

Organizations that are interested in improving their development velocity that follow the principles of the twelve-factor app might find benefits in understanding how to realize those concepts on Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, I will help you correlate the twelve-factors app concepts as you architect solutions on AWS.

In this post, we propose a solution that handles serverless retries when the workflow’s state isn’t managed by an additional service.

Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was […]

This post shows how cloud-based services can transform traditional B2B communication processes, offering supply chain companies a path to improved efficiency, compliance, and customer satisfaction. For supply chain providers facing similar challenges, this solution offers a blueprint for modernizing file transfer systems while maintaining compliance with industry standards.

BASF Digital Farming’s mission is to support farmers worldwide with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision advice by using its main crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER. This necessitates providing the most recent satellite imagery available as quickly as possible. This blog post describes the serverless architecture developed by BASF Digital Farming for efficiently downloading and supplying […]

Accelerate your serverless feedback loop with game-changing AWS developer tools: generate tests with AI, visualize DynamoDB schemas locally, optimize Lambda memory, and more—all within a streamlined local IDE experience.

We are excited to announce the availability of enhanced and expanded guidance for the AWS Well-Architected Framework with the following six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability This release includes new best practices and improved prescriptive implementation guidance for the existing best practices. This includes enhanced recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns focused on specific business […]