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Improving API Performance with HTTP Keepalive by Clete Blackwell II

Optimizing response time by reducing unnecessary connection reestablishment

May 24, 2022

Performance of business functionality is important. To keep this at the forefront, modern business functionality is backed by one or more customer-facing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) which are often backed by a series of microservices. Any amount of unnecessary response time in a deeply-nested service can cause slow performance to customers, potentially creating inefficiencies and diminishing customer satisfaction.

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DynamoDB Ingestion to an Enterprise Data Lake by Clete Blackwell II

A journey in discovering architectural patterns

Jun 14, 2021

Companies manage a lot of data – often having application data in many different data stores and in a variety of formats (e.g., File storage, DB2, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and more). That data can also live on many different physical data centers ranging from on-premises to vendor data centers to public cloud data centers. Each data store is created for a specific purpose, such as customer contact information, conversation logs, policy data, or purchase history.

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