Sometimes Real-Time is the Only Time

The value of a single point of data generated by a business event can quickly diminish. Whenever user sign-ups, customer transactions, or sensitive data accesses occur; reaction time can be critical. Fraud and security breach detection, health metric monitoring, and leaderboards for web presentation are a few of the countless use cases that are best handled with real-time technologies.

Beyond the need for fast reaction times, events may trigger workflows with complex business and routing rules, require immediate aggregation, or need to be analyzed with machine learning models and other APIs.

AWS provides a variety of services to construct solutions for these use cases. Understanding whether to use streams or queues, Lambda functions, Spark or Flink, can be difficult, as each of these technologies has strengths, peculiarities, cost structures, and different scaling approaches.
How the Uturn Real-Time Build Lab Works

Uturn’s Real-Time Build Lab is a cooperative engagement spanning 4-6 weeks which culminates in a one-week build activity guided by a certified Senior Architect. The build team consists of your developers or Uturn engineers, or a combination of both, depending upon your needs. Uturn believes collaboration is the best approach because it includes your builders from the beginning reducing future knowledge gaps.

Throughout the engagement, you will have an assigned Technical Project Manager and Senior Architect. Through a series of planning meetings Uturn will step through your use cases, assess your current state, propose an architecture, and ensure that the team is ready to build.

The result of build week is a live implementation of your application, built using AWS services alongside tools or SaaS offerings that are already in your arsenal.

 

Real-Time Build Lab Deliverables

When the lab is complete, you will have a pilot version of your application with the following attributes:

  • Live Environment: Built and running in your own AWS environment
  • Proven Use Cases: Deliverables are focused on connecting components and proving out critical functionality
  • Actionable Playbook: Work is not “throw away”. Uturn will leave you with a plan to iterate the application all the way to production future use cases.

Examples of In-Scope AWS Services

Example Use Cases

  • Modernize legacy ESB application to use scalable serverless services
  • Data ingestion to multiple data stores and SaaS applications
  • Streaming analytics to provide real-time aggregate metrics across user sessions
  • Metadata driven streaming transformation of incoming events with complex routing rules
  • Real-time complex webhooks and API backends
  • Streaming inference against ML models for anomaly and fraud detection
  • Encryption or anonymization of data before it is written to a data store

About Uturn
Uturn is an Amazon Web Services Advanced Tier Consulting Partner specializing in Enterprise Cloud Enablement, IT Modernization, and Data and Analytics. We help our clients adopt and optimize cloud services to remove technical debt, prepare for growth, eliminate uncertainty, foster innovation, accelerate critical business initiatives, and become more efficient with their technology investments.