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20 min read

AWS OpenSearch New Features: The Solutions for Common Challenges

AWS OpenSearch New Features

Should your daily routine of search and data analytics revolve around the OpenSearch engine, you are probably well-acquainted with the difficulties that come along. In recent years, Amazon has done tons to streamline data integration, enhance search capabilities, and fortify security analytics within the OpenSearch ecosystem.

Read on to find out the latest innovations for extracting the most relevant insights from your data in the least burdensome way. The article sheds light on:

  • What pains a data engineer, developer, and security analyst face while using the OpenSearch suite
  • How AWS has addressed these inherent challenges
  • What benefits you can gain from Amazon OpenSearch innovations

17 min read

Micro Frontends – The Evolution of Microservice Idea to Frontend Development

Micro Frontends – The Microservice Idea in Frontend

Many companies revere distributed systems as a one-size-fits-all approach, which optimally solves any software issue, but does it?

This article explores architecture options from various monolith types and transition options to micro frontends in action: their characteristics, merits and demerits, indications, and nuances between micro frontends in monorepos and multirepos. Be sure to make informed decisions in your frontend architecture journey after perusing this go-to article.

Should any of these questions bother you, keep on reading:
  • What is micro frontend architecture?
  • How to find out if I need micro frontends?
  • What is the difference between monoliths, integrated apps and micro frontends?
  • How are present-day monoliths similar to and different from distributed systems?
  • What are the risks of micro frontend architecture?

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Romexsoft Acquires Amazon CloudFront Service Delivery Designation

We are thrilled to announce that Romexsoft has officially become an Amazon CloudFront Service Delivery partner. This designation reflects our dedication to providing top-notch networking and content delivery services (CDN).

The achievement is a testament to our technical prowess, commitment to AWS best practices, and, most importantly, the proven success we've already delivered to our customers.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.

Mastering the Project Management Life Cycle in Software Development

Mastering the Project Management Life Cycle in Software Development

Embarking on a successful project journey means navigating through the intricacies of project management, a dynamic process marked by distinct stages, each demanding unique steps and tools. This article is an all-encompassing exploration of the project manager's pivotal role throughout the project life cycle. Join us as we uncover tips and insights, providing a roadmap for the complex realm of project management that can be full of pitfalls. Browse through this article to find out:

  • what is project management life cycle
  • what tools and documents will come in handy in managing a project
  • what duties a project manager is supposed to adopt
  • what challenges occur in the project management flow
  • how to prevent and tackle the project management issues.

Modern Application Development on AWS: Pathways that Generate Business Value

Modern Application Development on AWS

Granted that modern web or mobile applications are an indispensable part of delivering customer value, it is only justifiable for businesses to invest in modern architecture construction to pave the way to customer satisfaction and competitive standing. Unfortunately, the struggle organizations face in balancing technology management and innovation holds many businesses back from reaping the results of their application modernization. In order to help you address this frequent issue permeating the process of modern application development, Romexsoft has created this article which reveals:

  • What the most common advantages of modern architecture are
  • What steps cloud application development entails
  • How AWS application development services support modern infrastructures
  • Why collaborate with certified vendors in AWS consulting and application development

AWS Observability Best Practices for Your Application

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Achieving application observability: the ability to gain insight into an app's inner operation, is a widespread business challenge aggravated by a common problem: effective instrumentation. While observability is increasingly important, the way to achieving it can be obstructed by the intricacies of instrumenting effectively.

The article will lead you to Amazon's best practices for overcoming this challenge, enabling organizations to gather and analyze their app’s information in order to gain insights as well as take appropriate actions to tackle issues and ensure optimal app performance. Upon reading, you will be able to apply the following knowledge to your app’s merit:

  • why instrumentation matters for observability
  • how to handle cardinality within visibility
  • what tools and services AWS offers for instrumentation
  • what best practices Amazon promotes for achieving visibility

18 min read

Amazon OpenSearch Service – A Comprehensive Guide

amazon opensearch

Like many organizations, yours may be facing challenges when seeking secure, scalable, and high-performing search and analytics solutions. Indeed, the pursuit of making the most of the available data is often hindered by operational complexities. Be it data security or scalability issues, this is where Amazon OpenSearch Service comes into play.

Should you be new to Amazon OpenSearch Service or quite a confident user already, this all-encompassing article will guide you in the intricacies of data-driven approach and analytics. The article will give you a thorough overview on:

  • What OpenSearch Service is and how it relates to OpenSearch
  • How Amazon OpenSearch operates and what functions covers
  • What the typical use cases for OpenSearch Service are
  • What benefits OpenSearch Service provides and at what cost

Application Observability – What It Is For and How You Can Handle It with AWS

application observability

Suppose you have a public-facing web application. Suppose the app users report complaints about the sluggish performance of your application. Both your front-end and your back-end teams dive into their dashboards and metrics, but neither can pinpoint the root of the problem. What we as consulting partners typically discover upon analyzing a case is that businesses have plenty of technical metrics and only a scarce, if not none, representation of user experience metrics for an app. That is exactly the issue with observability that generates certain blindness to the origins of user dissatisfaction.

In this article, we delve into the essence of application observability, uncovering its pivotal role in ensuring robust functionality. Join us to find out:

  • what application observability stands for
  • why application observability matters for performance
  • what the three pillars of app observability are
  • what application observability tools and services AWS has to offer.

21 min read

Cloud Adoption – The Price of Inaction

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We at Romexsoft have accumulated extensive experience in assisting our customers in adopting migrating their solutions to the cloud so as to leverage what it has to offer. Drawing from our practical expertise in cloud adoption and migration, we have gained many an insight into the as well as the cost of delaying and avoiding the adoption of cloud services. Thus in this article, we will recount the investments and profits associated with cloud computing: both literally and non-literally. To be more specific, the article explains:

  • what the most common reasons for cloud adoption are
  • how the cloud adoption begins and what challenges await at the start
  • what the typical cloud adoption differentiators are
  • what the cost of doing nothing with cloud adoption is
  • what the implications of slow cloud migration are

How To Optimize Cloud Cost Using the AWS Well-Architected Framework

how to optimize cloud cost

Efficient cloud cost management is a paramount concern for businesses that prioritize innovation and their competitive standing. At the same time, heavy reliance on cloud services to deliver value effectively, smoothly, and rapidly entails the need for cost optimization while maintaining performance. For many businesses, a journey of achieving maximal cost efficiency is challenging to set out on independently, so this article recites the strategies and helpful measures one can employ on the way to sustainable cost optimization.

It also covers the questions of:

  • How the AWS Well-Architected Framework handles cloud costs
  • Why and how to analyze business expenditure
  • What the cost optimization strategy implementation entails
  • How AWS tools aid in cost management
  • What role AWS-certified partners play in maximizing cost efficiency.