Category: News

ProofHub vs. Trello: A Head-to-Head Comparison

July 10, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Finding the right project management tool can feel overwhelming. You want something intuitive, powerful, and budget-friendly. You might have narrowed your search to the showdown: ProofHub vs. Trello.  But how do you know which one best suits your team’s needs? Modern projects are complex. Many…

Refactoring to Serverless: From Application to Automation

July 4, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Serverless technologies not only minimize the time that builders spend managing infrastructure, they also help builders reduce the amount of application code they need to write. Replacing application code with fully managed cloud services improves both the operational characteristics and the maintainability of your applications…

Modernize your Java application with Amazon Q Developer

July 3, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Many organizations have critical legacy Java applications that are increasingly difficult to maintain. Modernizing these applications is a necessary, daunting, and risky task that takes the focus off of creating new value or features. This includes undocumented code, outdated frameworks and libraries, security vulnerabilities, a…

Five ways Amazon Q simplifies AWS CloudFormation development

June 24, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction As a builder, AWS CloudFormation provides a reliable way for you to model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. First-time and experienced users of CloudFormation can often encounter some challenges when it comes to development of templates and…

Fault-isolated, zonal deployments with AWS CodeDeploy

June 23, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

In this blog post you’ll learn how to use a new feature in AWS CodeDeploy to deploy your application one Availability Zone (AZ) at a time to help increase the operational resilience or your services through improved fault isolation. Introducing change to a system can…

AWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1

June 21, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction The CloudFormation Linter, cfn-lint, is a powerful tool designed to enhance the development process of AWS CloudFormation templates. It serves as a static analysis tool that checks CloudFormation templates for potential errors and best practices, ensuring that your infrastructure as code adheres to AWS…

Blue/Green Deployments to Amazon ECS using AWS CloudFormation and AWS CodeDeploy

June 20, 2024 By Mark Otto Off

Introduction Many customers use Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) for running their mission critical container-based applications on AWS. These customers are looking for safe deployment of application and infrastructure changes with minimal downtime, leveraging AWS CodeDeploy and AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation natively supports performing Blue/Green…