Indika_Wimalasuriya articles - 61 total
CloudFront Observability Best Practices with Datadog
Amazon CloudFront is Amazon's own Content Delivery Network (CDN), designed to speed up content...
Top AWS CloudWatch Anti-Patterns that could derail your Observability strategy
AWS CloudWatch provides a comprehensive service stack to enable end-to-end full-stack observability...
AIOps Powered by AWS: Developing Intelligent Alerting with CloudWatch & Built-In Capabilities
AIOps is no longer the next big thing — the journey has already started, and you need to get on board...
AWS PartyRock powers Debate Analyzer Pro: Breaking Traditional Media Bias
For some reason, I have been a fascinated follower of U.S. political debates for decades. It’s always...
AWS Observability Maturity Model - V2
Approximately six months ago, I introduced the first version of the AWS Observability Maturity Model....
Saving the planet with AWS: What you can do as a Cloud Architect
I ran a poll on LinkedIn to understand climate change awareness within our community, and the results...
AWS: Your Ally in Amplifying Reliability with GenAI
Generative AI, or the Large Language Models, is by far one of the most exciting technologies we have...
Amazon Forecast : Best Practices and Anti-Patterns implementing AIOps
AIOps leverages artificial intelligence for IT operations. Forecasting is one of the most leveraged...
LLMs in Amazon Bedrock: Observability Maturity Model
A few weeks back, I presented at Conf42 LLM2024. My presentation was on "LLMs in AWS: Observability...
Observability Maturity Model for AWS
In the fast-paced and complex landscape of Cloud-Native environments, achieving effective...
Smart Chaos: LLMs, No More Human Modeling
Modern enterprise distributed systems are very complex in nature, and, of course, it's hard to manage...
Exploring the World of LLMs for SRE Powered by PartyRock (Claude, Jurassic-2, Titan, Command, Liama 2 & Stable Diffusion XL)
Everyone can build AI apps, that's the motto promoted by AWS PartyRock and it's the first AWS service...
Maximizing Speed, Costs, UX - AWS ElastiCache Serverless
System performance is directly correlated with revenue. That is a mantra if you don't know it yet. If...
Why AWS is poised to lead the Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM and Observability in 2024
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and observability tools play a crucial role in cloud...
AWS Observability: Building a Comprehensive Solution for Distributed Systems
Observability is now a key theme in modern distributed systems maintenance. Why? Because businesses...
AWS Rush hour : The 98 mins challenge
When I joined the AWS Community Builder program, I had a quick walkthrough of Jason Dunn's movie...
AWS re:Invent 2023 - Empowering SREs with Game-Changing Solutions
AWS re:Invent 2023 kicked off on November 27th. As usual, AWS is unveiling numerous new capabilities...
Lazy Loading vs Write-Through: A Guide to Performance Optimization
What is Lazy loading? Lazy loading is a performance optimization technique where data is loaded into...
AWS In-Memory Databases: Complete Guide to Accelerated Data Processing
What is an In memory Database? An in-memory database is a type of database system that relies...
Unveiling PartyRock: Your Ultimate Guide to AWS's Latest GenAI Wonder
PartyRock is the latest GenAI product released by AWS. If you're wondering what it's all about, let's...
Code to Cloud: DevOps with AWS
Over the past few months, I have been collaborating with the Computer Society of the University of...
Free AWS Digital Badges - Boost Your Career and Job Prospects
AWS is offering free Digital Badges as part of its training program. These are some great ways to get...
Choosing the Right AWS EC2 Instance: Avoiding Common Pitfalls
AWS provides an array of compute options to cater to the diverse needs of workloads. From virtual...
AWS Lambda: A Hands-On Beginner's Guide
In this blog post, I'll begin by providing a brief overview of serverless computing. Then, I'll...
Did You Know About AWS Always-Free Services
If you're like me and frequently using AWS for personal projects, or creating proofs of concept...
SageMaker Jumpstart vs Bedrock
Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart empowers you to host your own machine learning models, allowing you to...
Cloud9 starter guide with Spring Boot
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) offering numerous advantages. It...
New dog is ready to rock
Datadog's 2023 Feature Launch: A New Era of Observability As part of its annual product launch,...
Datadog vs New Relic: A Duel for Dominance in LLM Observability Platforms
In the realm of large Language Models (LLMs), observability is paramount. It facilitates real-time...
Amazon Bedrock : Top 10 Questions Answered
Amazon Bedrock, an innovative facet within Amazon Web Services (AWS), unveils a fresh frontier in the...