Attacks and data violations involving poorly secured APIs are occurring regularly. Protecting web APIs with general-purpose application security solutions alone continues to be ineffective. Each new API represents an additional and potentially unique attack vector into your systems. Modern application architecture trends — including mobile access, microservice design patterns, and hybrid on-premises/cloud usage has driven security to have largely a single “gateway” point at which protection can be enforced (Frankly, if you can’t govern that then you are at the helm of bigger problem).

Intelligence around logged information from your application could be critical to the success of the product but also for business ROI. It’s also part of the operational excellence pillar in well-architected-framework-lens. It assists with factors like business KPIs or customer insights which are important to know how to keep your applications secure, healthy and reliable. Logs analytics include application logs, audit logs, platform logs, and user logs etc. But challenges arise for log management at scale with

First of all I wish everyone health in these difficult times. I was watching the news about something cooking in Wuhan in December and felt pretty normal and not something that will just decimate the whole world in days to come. We are practically in world war three just the infirmary is the battlefield. But we are all in this together and we have to come out as a winner.

If you are on-prem data centers and are looking to build a digital transformation solution in the cloud. OR If you have AWS or GCP already running in some capacity and you have thoughts of swapping one with the other then this post might be of consequence to you. I have been working with the cloud for almost 6 years now. And all through my journey, we have different providers come and go.

First of all, Happy new year to everyone as this is my first post for this year. Now let’s talk about the post. If your enterprise/business is looking to use managed services from AWS like API gateway and AppSync because of their feature-rich options but also want a secure connection to the domain layer then this is the post for you. If all these layers are alien to you then you can take refresher from my digital transformation architecture post.

I published an architecture in the two-part series which can be perfect for Digital Transformations. And to become fast-paced we decompose big monoliths to individual smaller microservices. That’s given and we can’t go back on that as there are a lot of accruals. But we also introduced some complexities too. One of them is Data access as it has become much more complex when you move to a microservices architecture.

I published an architecture in the two-part series which can be perfect for Digital Transformations. And to become fast paced we decompose big monoliths to individual smaller microservices which bring in the need for moving the data from the monolith world to the microservices world. Below are couple of use cases i have to deal with in my case. Use Case 1 - Breaking a monolith to microservice This means that we need data migration from monolith Database to microservice individual data bases.

I published an architecture in the two-part series which can be perfect for Digital Transformations. Now it’s very tricky to measure the success of architecture but there are certain aspects which can be based on the best practices and guidance published. One of my favorite ones is the AWS Well-Architected framework. You can use this tool to measure if your architecture is set up to handle whatever you and your business wants.

In the previous part we talked about the logical architecture for a digital transformation. In this part, I picked up a modern use case and see how this architecture can help implement all aspects of the business requirements of digital transformation. Use Case I picked up the use case of AWS Polly to store and redistribute speech or do the realtime streaming for conversational text. The Reference Architecture Below gives the view of the architecture for this use case.

What is Digital Transformation and Why? If you are interested in technology then you are pretty familiar with the word “Digital transformation”. This a buzz word going in all big enterprises to disrupters and small startups. The intent is to stay ahead of the game which I will cover in why part little later .. hang on. At its core, digital transformation is driving companies to reframe their relationships with their customers, suppliers, and employees through leveraging new technologies to engage in ways that were not possible before.