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Comparison of AWS Services for Event Driven Architecture by Jeff Himmell

Complicated highway interchange denotes the many possible paths

At State Farm® we’re about helping people. Helping people manage the risks of everyday life and recover from the unexpected is at the core of what we do. As it applies to technology, the Event Driven Architecture (EDA) pattern is especially useful for orchestrating multiple services in unforeseen situations. However, deciding on the best AWS product to use as the event bus can be daunting. This article will cover common considerations (such as scalability), as well as those that can make a bad…

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Using Terraform for S3 Storage with MIME Type Association by Dillon Henn
Confidently deploy your content to S3 using Terraform - here's how we did it.

terraform

Today, many product teams may utilize the Amazon Simple Storage Service to store Single Page Application (SPA) resources. Oftentimes they do this by packaging infrastructure code with the application code. However, this tends to add complexity to the pipeline because the content for S3 must be uploaded and synched in a separate step.

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Using a Community Support model by Karl Cardenas
Why your organization should embrace the Community Support model

DevEx

It’s tough to find an organization that is not leveraging a public cloud platform. With all the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS providers out there, chances are you’ve used cloud services in some manner. As public cloud utilization continues to ramp up in many industries (e.g., insurance, financial, business), organizations are encountering a new challenge: how to correctly consume these new platforms and technologies. It’s a workforce challenge more so than it is a technical challenge.

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