AWS Billing Alerts: 5 Steps to Saving Money in Cloud Services

AWS billing alerts: a picture of U.S. $100 bills

A couple of years ago I was developing a new high availability (HA) system for a past employer. The project used a Mongo database to capture a gargantuan amount of financial data from live streams. By luck, Amazon had just released DocumentDB, which is essentially a clone of the Mongo 3.x API—a perfect fit for […]

The Strategic Role of API Management using Gateways

Effective API management is central to modern digital strategies, ensuring seamless interactions between disparate systems and services. Here, I’ll discuss the pros and cons of AWS API Gateway and Azure API Management and introduce another compelling option for certain scenarios: the Ocelot API gateway. The Case for AWS API Gateway AWS API Gateway excels in […]