Quick Start: AWS SQS + Spring Boot Processing FIFO Queues

Brandon Klimek Articles, AWS, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Microservices, Spring Boot Leave a Comment

AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service) can provide developers with flexibility and scalability when building microservice application(s). In this quick start tutorial, we will demonstrate how to configure a FIFO queue for a fictional online marketplace.

What Is A FIFO Queue?

A FIFO (first in, first out) queue is used when the order of items or events is critical, or where duplicates items in the queue are not permitted. For example:

– Prevent a user from buying an item that isn’t available on a marketplace.

AWS Lambda With NestJS

Greg Emerick Articles, AWS, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Node.js 7 Comments

In my previous blog post, I showed running a Spring Boot Java application in AWS Lambda. I discussed the pros and cons of using Java and Spring with Lambda. In this blog post, I’ll cover another Lambda option with NestJS. NestJS provides a framework that is not too different from a typical Spring application. It also addresses some of the negatives of using Java and Spring in a Lambda function.

To recap, AWS Lambda provides low cost compute with zero maintenance. Lambda runs your code on demand, without provisioned and managed servers. Lambda automatically runs and scales your code. You are charged for every 100ms your code executes and the number of times your code is triggered. Lambda has clear cost and maintenance benefits over typical on-premise or EC2 deployments. What does it take to run a Nest application as a Lambda? Does NestJS provide benefits over a Java Spring application?

Bringing a Microservice Into an AWS App Mesh

Brad Flood Articles, AWS, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Microservices Leave a Comment

Remember when Netflix first came out with its suite of distributed components? It included Eureka for service discovery, Hystrix for circuit breaking, and Zuul for intelligent routing. Netflix was running on an AWS infrastructure back then, but the infrastructure didn’t exist for Netflix to manage its microservice ecosystem. The industry has come to describe the Netflix components within the larger context of a service mesh.

AWS recently introduced App Mesh, a highly-available set of services that integrate with the AWS ecosystem and provide the capabilities Netflix was looking for back in the day.

In this post, we provide an introduction to AWS App Mesh and show a quick tutorial of bringing a reference microservice into an AWS App Mesh.

Keyhole Software Earns AWS Consulting Partner Status

Keyhole Software Articles, AWS, Cloud, Company News, Consulting, Keyhole Leave a Comment

We are proud to announce that Keyhole Software has earned its status as an Amazon Web Service Consulting Partner.

Keyhole Software is now a Standard Tier Consulting Partner in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), joining an elite group of technology partners nationwide. The partner network consists of professional services firms that help customers design, architect, build, migrate and manage their workloads on AWS platforms.

Keyhole earned the APN Standard Consulting Partner designation due to a demonstrated level of expertise with the AWS platform through a combination of customer testimonials, professional certifications, and investments in employee educational programs. Companies that have gained this status have demonstrated deep expertise in delivering customer solutions on AWS…. 

AWS SNS Push Notifications

Matt McCandless Articles, AWS, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 1 Comment

Have you ever received endless notifications from the latest application you just downloaded? For example, a bank application that tells you your balance is less than $50. It is likely a message sent directly to your phone through Apple Push Notification Service, Firebase Cloud Messaging, or some other like service.

While you can use any of these services directly, there is a lot to gain by using something like AWS SNS to manage, send, and organize your notifications.

In this post, we show an example of the Push Notification feature of Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) using Firebase to handle the iOS and Android messages. Code examples are in Java using Eclipse.

Do note that this blog is solely focused on Push Notification feature of SNS. Keep in mind that SNS can be used for email and SMS messaging, but for brevity, we will steer clear of those.