Martin Fowler

MARCH 5, 2019

In my recent client engagement, I foresaw that serverless architecture was a perfect fit. The idea of adopting serverless architecture, though, didn’t fly to our client well due to the fear of vendor lock-in. Let’s have a look into an example of building an event-driven architecture. generic cloud usage.

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Xebia

AUGUST 17, 2023

Leveraging Serverless and Generative AI for Image Captioning on GCP In today’s age of abundant data, especially visual data, it’s imperative to understand and categorize images efficiently. TL;DR We’ve built an automated, serverless system on Google Cloud Platform where: Users upload images to a Google Cloud Storage Bucket.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 22, 2025

Security teams in highly regulated industries like financial services often employ Privileged Access Management (PAM) systems to secure, manage, and monitor the use of privileged access across their critical IT infrastructure. However, the capturing of keystrokes into a log is not always an option.

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James Shore

MAY 31, 2021

To share your thoughts, join the AoAD2 open review mailing list. Evolutionary System Architecture. What about your system architecture? By system architecture, I mean all the components that make up your deployed system. When you do, you get evolutionary system architecture.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Amazon Bedrock offers a serverless experience so you can get started quickly, privately customize FMs with your own data, and integrate and deploy them into your applications using AWS tools without having to manage infrastructure. Monitoring – Monitors system performance and user activity to maintain operational reliability and efficiency.

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Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

This is the introductory post in a two-part series, exploring the world of Serverless and Edge Runtime. The main focus of this post will be Serverless, while the second one will focus on an alternative, newer approach in the form of Edge Computing. Scalability Of course, going serverless is not only for small projects.

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Palo Alto Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2024

According to the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report : The rate of cloud migration shows no sign of slowing down—from $370 billion in 2021, with predictions to reach $830 billion in 2025—with many cloud-native applications and architectures already having had time to mature. Q explains: That's the user of the cloud…that's your responsibility.

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CIO

MAY 8, 2024

This helps reduce the points of failure due to human intervention. This is crucial for extracting insights from text-based data sources like social media feeds, customer reviews, and emails. Serverless data integration The rise of serverless computing has also transformed the data integration landscape. billion by 2025.

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CircleCI

MAY 7, 2020

How do we design our systems in a manner that can adapt and change to things that don’t even exist when we start building it? There has been a lot of talk in recent years about architectures that are specifically designed to evolve or more easily adapt to change. Design architecture to solve problems.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Use case overview The organization in this scenario has noticed that during customer calls, some actions often get skipped due to the complexity of the discussions, and that there might be potential to centralize customer data to better understand how to improve customer interactions in the long run.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

With serverless being all the rage, it brings with it a tidal change of innovation. or invest in a vendor-agnostic layer like the serverless framework ? or invest in a vendor-agnostic layer like the serverless framework ? What is more, as the world adopts the event-driven streaming architecture, how does it fit with serverless?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

API Gateway is serverless and hence automatically scales with traffic. The advantage of using Application Load Balancer is that it can seamlessly route the request to virtually any managed, serverless or self-hosted component and can also scale well. It’s serverless so you don’t have to manage the infrastructure.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 3, 2024

Search engines and recommendation systems powered by generative AI can improve the product search experience exponentially by understanding natural language queries and returning more accurate results. We use Amazon OpenSearch Serverless as a vector database for storing embeddings generated by the Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings model.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 17, 2024

This involves building a human-in-the-loop process where humans play an active role in decision making alongside the AI system. Example overview To illustrate this example, consider a retail company that allows purchasers to post product reviews on their website. For most reviews, the system auto-generates a reply using an LLM.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In the same spirit of using generative AI to equip our sales teams to most effectively meet customer needs, this post reviews how weve delivered an internally-facing conversational sales assistant using Amazon Q Business. The following screenshot shows an example of an interaction with Field Advisor.

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Xebia

MAY 21, 2024

This involves updating existing systems to take advantage of modern cloud-native architectures, technologies, and best practices, which always follow the six Pillars of AWS Well Architecture Framework: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.

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Altexsoft

DECEMBER 28, 2018

According to the RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud report, serverless architecture penetration rate increased to 75 percent. Aware of what serverless means, you probably know that the market of cloudless architecture providers is no longer limited to major vendors such as AWS Lambda or Azure Functions.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

RAG is a framework for improving the quality of text generation by combining an LLM with an information retrieval (IR) system. The LLM generated text, and the IR system retrieves relevant information from a knowledge base. An OpenSearch Serverless collection. A SageMaker execution role with access to OpenSearch Serverless.

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Datavail

AUGUST 4, 2021

The AWS Auto Scaling feature lets you define rules to automatically adjust your capacity, so the system never goes down due to heavy demand. Before executing any cloud migration, organizations need to perform due diligence and develop a clear strategy. Refactoring applications by changing their architecture for the cloud.

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Trigent

APRIL 7, 2022

serverless. Enter serverless computing. By adhering to some basic rules, services and applications can be deployed onto serverless systems. Of course, this is a significantly simplified explanation, and the systems are way more complicated. If things failed, it was NOT due to provisioning and capacity.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 31, 2024

This means that individuals can ask companies to erase their personal data from their systems and from the systems of any third parties with whom the data was shared. The following diagram depicts a high-level RAG architecture. Who does GDPR apply to?

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CIO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

that make migration to another platform difficult due to the complexity of recreating all of that on a new platform. Architectural lock-in is when the application relies on multiple managed services from the cloud provider. And review and adjust licensing agreements as needed.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Amazon Q Business , a new generative AI-powered assistant, can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in an enterprises systems. The following diagram illustrates an example architecture for ingesting data through an endpoint interfacing with a large corpus.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this post, we evaluate different generative AI operating model architectures that could be adopted. It encompasses a range of measures aimed at mitigating risks, promoting accountability, and aligning generative AI systems with ethical principles and organizational objectives.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the following sections, we walk you through constructing a scalable, serverless, end-to-end Public Speaking Mentor AI Assistant with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Transcribe , and AWS Step Functions using provided sample code. The following diagram shows our solution architecture. The system prompt instructs the Anthropic Claude 3.5

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 14, 2021

From simple mechanisms for holding data like punch cards and paper tapes to real-time data processing systems like Hadoop, data storage systems have come a long way to become what they are now. When reviewing BI tools , we described several data warehouse tools. Data warehouse architecture. Is it still so?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 30, 2024

In this blog, we walkthrough the architectural components, evaluation criteria for the components selected by Vitech and the process flow of user interaction within VitechIQ. Prompt engineering Prompt engineering is crucial for the knowledge retrieval system. The following diagram shows the solution architecture.

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Prisma Clud

JUNE 20, 2023

Even more interesting is the diversity of these workloads, notably serverless and platform as a service (PaaS) workloads, which account for 36% of cloud-based workloads , signifying their growing importance in modern technology landscapes. Their expertise and diligence are indispensable alongside DevOps and security teams.

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CIO

JANUARY 31, 2024

Use more efficient processes and architectures Boris Gamazaychikov, senior manager of emissions reduction at SaaS provider Salesforce, recommends using specialized AI models to reduce the power needed to train them. “Is We see it as a recruiting and retention factor.” This results in a reduction of power consumption, he says.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

One way to enable more contextual conversations is by linking the chatbot to internal knowledge bases and information systems. The popular architecture pattern of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is often used to augment user query context and responses. The following diagram illustrates the high-level RAG architecture.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. Many of these next-generation projects are on track due to the organization’s decision to go all-in to the public cloud well before the pandemic hit. The PGA’s cloud push.

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Accenture

APRIL 10, 2019

Microservices architecture has become popular over the last several years. Or, when you can, avoid it altogether and go serverless! To achieve high quality, exercise “technical excellence” when developing software: unit testing, TDD, BDD, etc. Recently, however, there has been a noticeable backlash against microservices.

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Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

APRIL 24, 2018

According to Wikipedia, Serverless computing is a cloud computing model in which the cloud service provider dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources. Serverless computing still requires servers. Serverless computing is provided by a cloud service provider like AWS Lambda. Serverless computing is inexpensive.

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Stackery

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Serverless has, for the last year or so, felt like an easy term to define: code run in a highly managed environment with (almost) no configuration of the underlying computer layer done by your team. Fair enough, but what is is a serverless application? Review: What’s a Lambda? Look at all these responses!

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 3, 2025

Mistral developed a novel architecture for Pixtral 12B, optimized for both computational efficiency and performance. This architecture supports processing an arbitrary number of images of varying sizes within a large context window of 128k tokens. License agreements are a critical decision factor when using open-weights models.

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Tamnoon

MARCH 17, 2025

Serverless architecture accelerates development and reduces infrastructure management, but it also introduces security blind spots that traditional tools often fail to detect. Additionally, AWS serverless security pitfalls that compliance checklists often overlook.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 9, 2024

Verisk’s FAST platform is a leader in the life insurance and retirement sector, providing enhanced efficiency and flexible, easily upgradable architecture. In this post, we describe the development of the customer support process in FAST incorporating generative AI, the data, the architecture, and the evaluation of the results.

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