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CDK Corner – April 2021

Social – Community Engagement We’re getting closer and closer to CDK Day, with the event receiving 75 CFP submissions. The cdkday schedule is now available to plan out your conference day. Updates to the CDK Constructs promoted to General Availability Promoting a module to stable/General Availability is always a cause for celebration. Great job to […]

Solution architecture

Integrating with Aarogya Setu Open API on AWS to ensure a safe workspace

The Indian government announced the Open API Service from Aarogya Setu (ASetu) in August, 2020. It enables organizations and business entities to fetch the COVID-19 risk status of their employees or any other ASetu app users. Most office spaces have a visitor management system that controls access or logs the identities of people entering the […]

Micro ETL pipeline: How to fetch, process, and refresh small data using AWS Lambda and AWS SAM

Whether you are building a data lake, a data analytics pipeline, or a simple data feed, you may have small volumes of data that need to be processed and refreshed regularly. This post shows how you can build and deploy a micro extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipeline to handle this requirement. In addition, you […]

Dynamic multi-account pipeline solution architecture

How SOMA Global deploys their application with a dynamic multi-account pipeline

In April 2020, SOMA Global, a leading provider of Public Safety as a Service (PSAAS™), set out to update its computer aided design (CAD) platform to increase reliability to 99.999%, an industry first. SOMA Global adopted an account-based approach for tenant isolation to meet Criminal Justice Information Service (CJIS) regulations. The development and operations team […]

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Python support GA: improving Python code quality using Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer

We are pleased to announce the GA launch of Python support in Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, a service that helps you improve source code quality by automatically detecting hard-to-find defects. CodeGuru Reviewer is powered by program analysis and machine learning, and trained on best practices and hard-learned lessons across millions of code reviews on open-source projects […]

CDK Philosophy

Best practices for developing cloud applications with AWS CDK

April 20, 2022: Updates are available in the Best practices topic of the AWS CDK documentation. The documentation is the most up-to-date resource going forward. In this post, we discuss strategies for organizing the development of complex cloud applications with large teams, using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) as a central technology. AWS […]

Improving the CPU and latency performance of Amazon applications using Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler is a developer tool powered by machine learning (ML) that helps identify an application’s most expensive lines of code and provides intelligent recommendations to optimize it. You can identify application performance issues and troubleshoot latency and CPU utilization issues in your application. You can use CodeGuru Profiler to optimize performance for any […]

CDK Corner – March 2021

Social – Community Engagement The CDK team has started live streaming on the AWS Twitch Channel! The CDK Construction Zone is a semi regular series with members of the CDK Team diving into, and demonstrating how to build a CDK Construct. The series is dedicated to building CDK Triggers, with the code from this series […]

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Serverless UI testing using Selenium, AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate, and AWS Developer Tools

Since the post Using AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS Lambda for Serverless Automated UI Testing was published, things have evolved with Chrome headless and Firefox headless being supported natively. AWS Lambda now supports container images, AWS Step Functions has added support for Map state and its integration with Lambda, and AWS Fargate has enabled […]