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Using AWS Appsync and AWS Amplify in your development process
Within Merapar we create complete backend solutions for Media, Broadcast and IoT companies. These industry verticals have a common case where they serve a large consumer base with unpredictable usage...Read more...Merapar DevOps —Communicating AWS Account spending via Slack
In a series of blog posts we will focus on some of the best practices we use within Merapar to evolve our DevOps practices we have built around the AWS platform. Why? Because we think it’s fun to...Read more...AWS AppSync- Backend caching optimization with CloudFront
Experimented & Written by Leon Lanen & Tom de BrouwerSituationDevelopment of an interface between a high scale backend to mobile consumer application providing an OTT video streaming service...Read more...Controlled schema migration of large scale S3 Parquet data sets with Step Functions in a massively…
Controlled schema migration of large scale S3 Parquet data sets with Step Functions in a massively parallel mannerWorking with Machine Learning, and therefore very often with large and growing data...Read more...Effective data exploration via columnar data formats like Parquet
Serverless extraction of large scale data from Elasticsearch to Apache Parquet files on S3 via Lambda Layers, Step Functions and further data analysis via AWS AthenaFeature extraction and...Read more...Pure serverless machine learning inference with AWS Lambda and Layers
After designing and learning a ML model, the hardest part is actually running and maintaining it in production. AWS is offering to host and deploy models via On-Demand ML Hosting on various instance...Read more...Deploy a highly-available Cassandra cluster in AWS using Kubernetes
At Merapar, we use Cassandra as the back-bone for some of our highly-available cloud solutions. Cassandra is a highly available, highly performant, truly horizontal scalable NoSQL database. However,...Read more...Securing IAM access in Kubernetes
Securing AWS IAM access in KubernetesAt Merapar we regularly deploy Kubernetes on AWS and leverage IAM roles so our microservices can gain access to AWS services, such as DynamoDB, S3, Route53, etc....Read more...Sending GraphQL requests through AWS API Gateway using the Apollo client
Apollo Client and AWS API GatewayAt Merapar we frequently use GraphQL and for one particular project we have deployed it in AWS behind the Amazon API Gateway service. Security is managed using AWS...Read more...Tracing microservices with Zipkin and Kibana
For our projects with lots of JAVA microservices, we use Zipkin to get insights into the calls that are made and where the bottlenecks might be. Once we identified an interesting trace, we would like...Read more...
