Serverless computing, especially AWS Lambda, is a darling of Enterprise IT professionals. First entering the spotlight four years ago, Lambda allows the running of code without provisioning or managing servers. Thus it owes its rising popularity to ease of use, scalability and low costs tied solely to consumed compute time. In response to this increased demand for information on serverless computing, Karsun Solutions Data Analyst Sidharth Ramesh recently presented an Introduction to AWS Lambda at the Northern Virginia Linux Users Group. This Lambda 101 style talk served as an introduction to serverless.
Lambda 101
In his talk, Sidharth explains AWS Lambda is a function-as-a-service event-driven model. Sidharth uses the analogy of pushing code, rather than spinning up new instances. He outlines this departure from previous architectures and suggests use cases where Lambda may replace EC2 instances.
He provides an overview of implementation, including strategies for structuring event triggers. Drawing upon his past interactions with the Karsun Innovation Center, he shared lessons learned as well as suggested use cases. These include using Lambda in ETL or scenarios requiring an infrastructure as code approach.
View Sidharth’s complete talk on YouTube and his presentation on GitPitch.
Karsun Solutions – The Enterprise Modernization Experts
Established in 2009, Karsun Solutions LLC is in the business of solving problems. A premier IT consulting firm, we are an Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner, AWS Public Sector Partner, and AWS Authorized Reseller. From DevOps to Cloud Migration AWS is one of our many partners empowering Karsun Teams to Do Extraordinary! These teams deliver a portfolio of Enterprise Modernization services including Cloud Solutions, Modern Software Development, and Advanced Analytics. Our premier customers include the General Services Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, US Department of Homeland Security, Smithsonian and Government Accountability Office. Karsun Solutions’ quality, development, and information security practices include CMMI Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certifications.
Karsun Solutions’ Enterprise Modernization Experts are taking to the air on September 21st, 2018 at 12:00 p.m. ET on WFED 1500am. Recording from Federal News Radio’s studio, Karsun Executives Sundar Vaidyanathan, Kartik Mecheri and Terry Miller sat down with host Jason Miller. The thirty-minute Views from the Corner Office program offers a private industry glimpse into public sector contracting. During their interview, the Karsun Solutions leadership team discusses the state of the government contracting space, marketplace trends, and the future of enterprise modernization.
The Innovative Approach to Enterprise Modernization
From their recent founding to rapid growth, the Karsun executives relate an early commitment to establishing an innovative culture. Among their earliest objectives was investing early in dedicated innovation resources while honing the organization’s core capabilities. The team identifies this capabilities first approach to contracting as the key to their success. In the interview they reveal development strategy insights utilizing this approach.
The Future of Robotic Process Automation in Government Modernization
This innovative, capabilities first approach charges Karsun teams with experimenting with emerging technologies. Discussing recent Karsun Innovation Center research, Karsun Co-Founder and Chief Architect Kartik Mecheri takes a deep dive into robotic process automation. He outlines Karsun’s vision for machine intelligence and innovation in the public sector.
Over the course of their thirty-minute interview, the team reveals further insights into their growth process. For more insights from these industry experts tune into WFED at 12:00 p.m. on September 21st. Alternatively, listen live on the 21st at federalnewsradio.com.
About Karsun Solutions
Karsun Solutions is a premier consulting firm delivering a portfolio of enterprise modernization services to its federal and commercial customers. Its core competencies include Modern Software Development, Cloud Solutions, and Advanced Analytics. Its proprietary GoLean® software development methodology combines Agile, Lean, Kanban and DevOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle. The GoLean.io Software-as-a-Service provides a lean management tool-kit combining the best of these practices. Karsun Solutions’ quality, development, and information security practices include CMMI Level 3, ISO 9001:2015, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certifications.
Karsun Solutions Co-Founder and Chief Architect Kartik Mecheri recently sat in on Red Hat’s application modernization for government agencies IT Roundtable. Over the course of 40 minutes, this expert panel discussed DevOps, cloud migration, and microservices architecture at scale.
Initially, Mecheri identifies three paths to DevOps success: a bottom-up CI/CD approach, a top-down performance-focused approach, and an approach focused on loosely coupled architecture. Karsun manifests the combination of the bottom up and top-down approaches through the Continuous Governance life cycle.
He also identifies how working within the established process and culture is key to customer success, and urges teams to seek out opportunities to leverage the cloud’s flexibility and agility to beat bureaucracy. Karsun’s Cloud Runways, for instance, uses platforms that are currently available while focusing on opportunities to utilize cloud-native capabilities already in place. By combining GoLean for DevOps governance, Cloud Runways, and microservices architecture Karsun built modernization solutions for their customers with limited impact on service lines.
The roundtable is available on demand through Red Hat and available here.
Jyothi Salibindla, a Senior Software Engineer at Karsun Solutions, recently gave two talks on the power of microservices to drive adoption of Modern Software Development practices. On January 26th, she presented at the Wonder Women Tech Washington, DC Global Summit. This intimate one-day event featured C-Suite executives, innovators, and thought leaders. The following day, January 27th, she presented on Microservices Architecture Methodology at IEEE’s Women in Engineering Technical Talks.
In her presentation, Salibindla, attributes the rising popularity of microservices to evolving trends in software development and management practices. Organizations implementing Agile methodology, DevOps culture, Cloud Solutions, Linux containers, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices are empowered by microservices’ composable, independently deployable, fine-grained modules which scale up and down, vertically and horizontally. Leveraging microservices organizations see gains in deployment, manageability, and speed to market.
Jyothi Salibindla is a Senior Software Engineer at Karsun Solutions. With an extensive expertise in all facets of the J2EE/BPM lifecycle, she played a critical role in the success of several Agile BPM implementations. She spearheaded complex cloud to cloud integration strategies and solution architecture touching multiple internal and external systems.
For 27 years, the Federal 100 Awards have recognized government, industry and academic leaders who have played pivotal roles that affect how the federal government acquires, develops and manages IT. This year it recognized our own co-founder, Kartik K. Mecheri for his success in “Making GSA more agile.” Kartik has spurred agile development at the General Services Administration with an eye to boosting efficiency. He has been instrumental in helping GSA move away from traditional waterfall development to agile and other methods that stress communication, collaboration and use of the cloud. His influence has extended to GSA’s agile delivery team and innovation lab 18F. Essentially, Kartik and his team created a robust repository of proven, free code for federal agencies to reuse.
About Karsun Solutions
Karsun Solutions modernizes enterprise systems enabling agencies to make the next technological advancement their next opportunity to elevate mission capability. IT solutions from Karsun are tailored to meet agencies’ unique needs and optimize operations. These solutions adapt and stay relevant to current trends while using secure, digital architecture built to last. It is a proven modernization partner whose expertise elevates agency capabilities and ensures every next opportunity is within reach.
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