Posts tagged system-design
Coordinating distributed systems with the Saga Pattern on AWS
24 February, 2025
This post dives into the Saga pattern, a crucial design pattern for data consistency in microservices. I compare choreography (EventBridge) and orchestration (Step Functions) approaches, detailing their pros, cons, and suitable use cases for each on AWS.
Rate Limiting Multi-Tenant Environments with the Token Bucket Algorithm on AWS
12 January, 2025
In a multi-tenant SaaS environment, it is often necessary to rate limit certain actions to prevent any single tenant from overwhelming shared resources. In this post I discuss how the token bucket algorithm works and present architectures for implementing it using AWS services.
Getting to the meat and potatoes of serverless recipe parsing with Amazon Bedrock
14 May, 2024
If you're like me you've probably visited a few recipe websites in your time and had the unfortunate experience of having to scroll through the author's life story before getting to the actual recipe. I recently stumbled across an interesting website which is able to take a URL and extract just the recipe without all the surrounding fluff. This got me thinking... could I build something similar on AWS with serverless technologies and generative AI?