AWS Developer Tools Blog

Category: Programing Language

Deploying Java Applications on Elastic Beanstalk from Maven

The Beanstalker open source project now supports Java SE application development and deployment directly to AWS Elastic Beanstalk using the Maven archetype elasticbeanstalk-javase-archetype. With just a few commands in a terminal, you can create and deploy a Java SE application. This blog post provides step-by-step instructions for using this archetype. First, in the terminal, type the mvn archetype:generate command. Use elasticbeanstalk as the filter, choose elasticbeanstalk-javase-archetype […]

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Event-driven architecture using Scala, Docker, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and the AWS SDK for Java (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog post, we used the AWS SDK for Java to create a Scala application to write data in Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Dockerized the application, and then tested and verified the application is working. Now we will roll out our Scala application in Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) and use […]

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Event-driven architecture using Scala, Docker, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and the AWS SDK for Java (Part 1)

The key to developing a highly scalable architecture is to decouple functional parts of an application. In the context of an event-driven architecture, those functional parts are single-purpose event processing components (“microservices”). In this blog post, we will show you how to build a microservice using Scala, Akka, Scalatra, the AWS SDK for Java, and Docker. […]

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Migrating to Boto3

Boto3, the latest version of the AWS SDK for Python, was released earlier this year. Since its release, we’ve seen more and more customers migrating to the latest major version of Boto. Boto3 provides many significant improvements over Boto: Faster availability of API updates and consistency in exposed interfaces Collections that provide an iterable interface […]

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Welcome to the AWS Developer Blog for Python

Hi everyone! Welcome to the AWS Developer Blog for Python. I’m Jordon Phillips, and I work on the AWS SDK for Python. This blog will be the place to go for information about: Tips and tricks for using the AWS SDK for Python New feature announcements Deep dives into AWS SDK for Python features Guest […]

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Tuning the AWS SDK for Java to Improve Resiliency

In this blog post we will discuss why it’s important to protect your application from downstream service failures, offer advice for tuning configuration options in the SDK to fit the needs of your application, and introduce new configuration options that can help you set stricter SLAs on service calls. Service failures are inevitable. Even AWS […]

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Contributing to the AWS SDK for .NET

The AWS SDK for .NET is an open source project available on GitHub. This post is to help community developers navigate the SDK code base with an eye toward contributing features and fixes to the SDK. Code Generation The first gotcha for contributors is that major portions of the code are generated from models of […]

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