A practical guide to AWS SQS — standard vs FIFO queues, dead-letter queues, visibility timeout tuning, Lambda integration, and the messaging patterns that make distributed systems reliable.
A practical guide to choosing between monolithic and microservices architectures on AWS — team size, deployment complexity, operational cost, and the patterns that help you choose the right approach for your stage.
A practical guide to AWS API Gateway — choosing between REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, authentication patterns, throttling, caching, and the architecture decisions that determine API performance and cost.
A practical guide to AWS Cognito for SaaS authentication — user pools, hosted UI, social federation, multi-tenant patterns, token customization, and the architecture decisions that determine whether Cognito fits your application.
A practical guide to AWS EventBridge for event-driven architectures — event buses, rules, schema discovery, cross-account patterns, and the design principles that make event-driven systems reliable.
Architecture patterns for fintech applications on AWS — payment processing, fraud detection, regulatory compliance, and the services that power modern financial platforms.
How to build education platforms that scale from zero to millions of students using AWS serverless services — with architecture patterns for LMS, assessments, video delivery, and AI-powered learning.
Practical Step Functions patterns for production workloads — from sequential pipelines to parallel fan-out, error handling, human approval workflows, and cost optimization strategies.
A practical guide to DynamoDB single-table design for SaaS — covering access patterns, tenant isolation, GSI strategies, and the patterns that make DynamoDB the ideal serverless database.
A practical guide to Lambda pricing models, memory tuning, Graviton savings, and when Provisioned Concurrency pays for itself versus standard on-demand invocations.