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Leveraging AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Author: Paul Kurzawinski, Cloud Engineer Introduction AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is a service provided and delivered by Amazon Web Services that helps companies ensure business continuity in an unexpected disaster or downtime. The primary goal of AWS DRS is to replicate critical data and applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery in a secondary location to [...]

May 24th, 2024|Categories: AWS Architecture, AWS Cloud|Tags: , , |

Modernizing Legacy Applications: A Simple Checklist

Author: Stephen Sadowski, Vice President of Service Delivery Introduction One of the most interesting and challenging things Uturn does is to assist clients with modernizing their applications for utilization on AWS. While Uturn does not traditionally provide code support, it is absolutely necessary for us to be evaluate the readiness of an application and recommend a modernization and migration path. [...]

Kubernetes Fundamentals: Understanding Pods & Nodes

Author: Wend Tarpaga, Cloud Engineer Introduction Kubernetes, often abbreviated as k8s, has emerged as the de facto system for orchestrating containerized applications. Within this ecosystem, the concepts of "pods" and "nodes" are fundamental to understanding how Kubernetes manages and schedules applications. A pod is the smallest deployable unit created and managed by Kubernetes, while a node is the physical or [...]

May 14th, 2024|Categories: Containers, Kubernetes|Tags: , , , |

Scaling and Managing Applications with Kubernetes HorizontalPodAutoscaler

Author: Cyprian Moye, Cloud Engineer Introduction Unmatched agility and efficiency in managing workloads can be achieved by integrating HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) with Kubernetes deployments to ensure seamless performance. HPA can automatically adjust workload resources such as Deployments or StatefulSets, aligning application scaling with demand fluctuations without manual intervention. HPA offers the flexibility to scale resources up or down as needed by [...]

April 12th, 2024|Categories: Containers, Kubernetes|Tags: , , , |

Uturn Data Solutions Achieves AWS Competency Status for Data and Analytics

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Adam Dillman Uturn Data Solutions 312-291-8263 adillman@uturndata.com Chicago data and cloud technology consulting firm recognized with advanced partner competency accreditation. January 31, 2023 – Uturn Data Solutions, a Chicago-based data and cloud technology consulting firm in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), announced today that it has achieved AWS Data and Analytics Competency status.  AWS [...]

February 5th, 2024|Categories: Press Release|Tags: , , , , |

Build Lab: Real-Time

AWS provides a variety of services to construct solutions for Real-Time 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.

November 26th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

Build Lab – Data and Analytics

The story of your organization is written in the data generated by your customers, ledgers, CRM, application logs, partner files, and countless other sources. To understand that story, the data needs to be presented in a way that can be digested by the minds of your decision makers, whether through BI reporting, GenAI, or other natural language processing tools.

November 22nd, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |
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