Tag: dynamodb

  • Serverless Optical Character Recognition in Support of NASA Astronaut Safety

    Chris Shenton, CTO, V!Studios The NASA Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Office at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) needed to be able to search and make decisions based upon a huge volume of spacesuit safety and test documentation, many of which were only available as scans of paper reports. Timeliness was critical, especially in the event of…

  • Design Patterns for Serverless, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3

    Motivation We’ve been using AWS load balancers with autoscaling instances for years now and it’s great at handling load, but it’s quite a bit of infrastructure to manage (even with Troposphere + CloudFormation). We also have to manage all the data flow, queue processing and such ourselves: multiple SQS queues, EC2 polling, recording state in databases… More…