Trek10 designs and builds massively scalable, low-cost serverless systems that leverage AWS Lambda alongside other AWS platform services.
Trek10 has a proven track record of designing and implementing advanced IoT solutions and is an AWS IoT Competency Partner.
Fully managed 24/7 monitoring and support for AWS deployments by the Trek10 CloudOps team.
Our focus is on leveraging next-generation services and building serverless and event-driven architectures on AWS. Massive scalability, high uptime, heavy automation, and remarkably low operating costs are our hallmarks.
Trek10's expertise with the Serverless Framework enabled us to focus on the specifics of our application’s functionality and not have to worry about endless infrastructure configuration. Pay only for what you use, let AWS handle the scaling and resiliency, and don’t look back.
Leveraging standard AWS tooling, open source technologies, and custom services, the very talented Trek10 team built us one of the most flexible deployment and QA processes around.
Trek10 is more than a partner, they have become part of our team and success. We committed to an internal deadline, and these guys worked all hours with my team to make it happen. Dedication, talent and teamwork! I am blessed to be working with these guys.
June 20, 2017
At Trek10, we always try to consider the need for automation and repeatability with everything that we do. That’s why we focus on using tools like CloudFormation, Serverless, and CI, as well as building other tools.
June 07, 2017
Trek10, Inc, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner with the DevOps and IOT Competencies, today announced support for AWS Greengrass. AWS Greengrass is a new service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that seamlessly extends AWS to devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage.
April 17, 2017
Way back in March of 2011, AWS announced the release of [Dedicated Instances](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-dedicated-instances/), which allows organizations to launch EC2 instances on dedicated infrastructure. Typically, when an EC2 instance is launched in a VPC, the virtualized infrastructure is built from a pool of shared resources (e.g., CPU units) that is in use by all customers within a given [Availability Zone](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/).
April 05, 2017
There are multiple AWS services that are tailor-made for data ingestion, and it turns out that all of them can be the most cost-effective and well-suited in the right situation. We'll try to break down the story for you here.
March 31, 2017
We have several projects that use DynamoDB heavily. And, while DynamoDB works great, you can hit throttle limits if you are trying to tightly match your provisioned capacity to your actual demand. What about scaling up during the day and down during the night to meet your need? To do this, you would essentially need DynamoDB Auto Scaling.
March 06, 2017
Today we were looking for a quick way to replace scheduled jobs in Jenkins with GitLab CI. Unfortunately GitLab CI does not support scheduled runs. Being the lambda lovers we are, we figured a quick scheduled lambda function could fix this.
February 14, 2017
For all of our customers, any downtime for an IPsec tunnel results in significant business impact. This is why we built a Lambda function in Python that leverages the VNS3 API to check all IPsec tunnels for any outages and then posts a custom Datadog metric to notify our 24/7 CloudOps team of any IPsec tunnel issues.
January 06, 2017
Its more formal and slightly less catchy name is Cloudwatch Events with a Scheduled Event Source and a Lambda Target… but we think “Lambda Cron” just rolls off the tongue a bit better.
January 05, 2017
As you know, Lambda functions run in a contained environment. But, what you may not know is that this environment is also often reused for subsequent invocations.
November 08, 2016
One of the most compelling solutions that is enabled by assembling Lambda with other AWS Platform services is IoT. At Trek10 we are leading the way in building massively scalable IoT back-ends with AWS Serverless.
October 20, 2016
Lambda Error Hounds is command line utility, written in node, for getting the CloudWatch logs around Lambda error metrics, or even a specific time from any CloudWatch log group.
October 13, 2016
GraphQL, currently one of the biggest squares on the buzzword bingo card, is gaining a lot of steam recently and serverless sits right next to it.
September 20, 2016
You may have seen the announcement recently about what we at Trek10 consider to be the biggest update to CloudFormation since CloudFormation itself. AWS CloudFormation Update – YAML, Cross-Stack References, Simplified Substitution.
August 17, 2016
There are many compelling reasons to consider a Serverless/Lambda-based architecture for your next project: scalability, fault-tolerance, low maintenance cost, high flexibility. But one of the most often-cited is cost.
August 05, 2016
When you hear “Serverless” I know what you’re thinking… oh boy, another buzzword! I get it. And it’s a pretty confusing one, on two levels. There are still servers! We're just talking about a new abstractoin above the servers, but of course the servers are still hiding down in the stack.
June 16, 2016
The Serverless Framework is fantastic at managing AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and helping wire up all the events and streams.
May 18, 2016
At Trek10, whenever we take on a new customer, one of our very first security checks we perform is to ensure all users are leveraging multi-factor authentication (MFA).
May 02, 2016
So you’re building your serverless app on AWS for unlimited scalability and true pay-per-use. Your web server is Amazon API Gateway - unlimited scale with zero scaling effort. Your app server is AWS Lambda - ditto, unlimited scale with zero scaling effort. And your database is Amazon DynamoDB - unlimited scale… but not quite zero scaling effort.
April 27, 2016
We have several clients at Trek10 using the Amazon ECR (EC2 Container Registry) as their Docker registry for storing and shipping images to ECS and other systems.
April 02, 2016
Here at Trek10, we work with many clients, and thus work with multiple AWS accounts on a regular (daily) basis. We needed a way to make managing all our different accounts easier. We create a standard Trek10 administrator role in our clients' accounts that we can assume. For security we require that the role assumer have multifactor authentication enabled.
March 21, 2016
As a follow up to our post HTTPS Everywhere, today we'll discuss some history behind the SSL certificate and why they seem to cost so much money. We will also dive into the current landscape of SSL certificates and how you can obtain free Domain Validation certs through AWS Certificate Manager and Let’s Encrypt.
March 09, 2016
CloudWatch Event rules can be scheduled at minimum intervals of 5 minutes. At Trek10, we saw the need for a smaller interval, namely 1 minute. This need arose specifically in the context of handling Auto Scaling within ECS.
March 07, 2016
Often with new technology some of the primary benefits are realized when you reevaluate how you approach a problem. AWS Lambda and event driven computing is no exception.
February 29, 2016
Like any good engineering-driven culture, at Trek10 we constantly evaluate new technologies, tinkering with them to figure out how they might fit into our workflows and processes. Want to know what the coolest new framework we have been playing with recently has been? Serverless.
February 15, 2016
In Part 1, we reviewed a use case for roles in which console users would be required to assume a role for access to the production environment; we have implemented this for some of our more security conscious customers for the benefits we mentioned in Part 1. In Part 2, we will review cross-account roles and some of the different use cases.
February 03, 2016
New technology appears and old job functions become obsolete. The practitioners move on to retrain on higher-value tasks and in the end the whole system is more productive. It happened when cars replaced blacksmiths, when the computer replaced armies of human calculators, and it is happening now as cloud services replace low-level hardware babysitting on a large scale.
November 02, 2015
AWS’s recent outage to DynamoDB and related services in the US East region is a good reminder of some fundamentals of designing for availability on AWS.
September 24, 2015
You cannot deny that Docker+ECS is a compelling solution to many of the promises of DevOps and Cloud infrastructure.
August 24, 2015
The bytes that make up the page you are reading right now were delivered by a set of servers close to you. They were not generated by a server running WordPress or Joomla. In fact, the entire Trek10 website has no traditional server backend at all.
May 24, 2016
Amazon EC2 has over 40 different instance types and keeping track of them all can feel a little daunting. To simplify it, pay attention to something called an “instance family”. This is the prefix before the period in the instance name, for example the m3.large instance is in the family “m3”.
Trek10 is headed to San Francisco for Emit 2017 on August 17th, and then San Diego for the Gartner Catalyst Conference 2017 August 20-24.
Trek10 builds, optimizes, and manages high-value, cloud-based solutions with cutting edge tools and the absolute best cloud services. Massive scalability, high up-time, heavy automation, and remarkably low operating costs are our hallmarks.
Please call (888) 736-2446 (we are available 24/7) or write us at info@trek10.com.
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Best practices and thought leadership from the AWS Certified Solutions Architects at Trek10.