When we think about databases in AWS, the first solution that comes to mind is AWS RDS, although now AWS provides multiple other solutions. But due to many limitations with these new solutions, many developers still choose RDS over other solutions like Aurora and DynamoDB, etc. …

In most of the large-scale enterprise applications, it is a good practice to use multiple AWS accounts rather than using a single AWS account for every environment. At minimum, you should have a different AWS account for the production environment and another account for handling other environments. …

If you are a web developer then you need to write a lot of endpoints throughout your career. With modern frameworks writing API endpoints are easy. Because of that, we can find many good developers who are good at writing API endpoints. But what makes you an exceptional developer good…

After the introduction back in 2015, GraphQL has come a long way to view as an alternative or a better way of implementing APIs over REST API architecture. In the beginning, developers saw advantages as well as many disadvantages of GraphQL compared to REST. Now GraphQL has become more matured…

GraphQL is an open-source query and data manipulation language for APIs created by Facebook back in 2015. Although it is defined by the community as a probable replacement for REST, depending on each API architecture and requirements, some projects might be suitable for GraphQL API while others might be suitable…

Speech to text using AWS Transcribe, S3, Lambda, and output notifications using SNS and CloudWatch Events. — Speech to text is the process of converting audio to text. For computer software and programs, audio files are near impossible to be used for visualization/analysis or to harvest data out of it in a meaningful way. Therefore there is the need of converting these audio files to text before…

As said in the aim of this article is to create a serverless monitoring application using AWS WebSockets API, Lambda functions and EventBridge. In this simple application we are only going to perform a simple status check for facebook.com, but in reality this can be extended for much more other…

AWS Amplify AWS Amplify is a service provided by Amazon Web Services where it gives the ability to create end to end solutions for mobile and web platforms with a more secure and scalable way using AWS services. …

What is GraphQL and how to use AWS AppSync to create our own GraphQL API — What is GraphQL Nowadays whenever we talk or think about creating/designing an API what pops to the mind at first is REST. REST(REpresentational State Transfer) has been the go-to standard until recently when developing an API platform. Even though REST became the standard, it did have its own disadvantages. One of the main…