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Build specialized agent workflows for your business with Amazon Quick and NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit
In this post, we show how Amazon Quick can serve as the business-user front door for specialized agent workflows. We use the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit to build a supply-chain risk example that helps a planner move from an Amazon Quick dashboard and knowledge context to a guided mitigation recommendation.
Green Unit Tests Are a Comfort Blanket
My converter has a test suite. It was green. Every example I could think of went in, the right pytest file came out, and I shipped it to PyPI as 1.0. Weeks later it sits there marked Production/Stable. Then I pointed a fuzzer at it, and it stopped being so quiet.
How Couchbase built a multi-model AI architecture for Capella iQ with Amazon Bedrock
This post describes how Couchbase adopted Amazon Bedrock to power Capella iQ with Anthropic’s Claude family of models, the architectural decisions behind their multi-model approach, and the operational benefits realized in production.
Evolving from legacy BI to agentic AI at Tradeshift with Amazon Quick
In this post, we describe how Tradeshift deployed Amazon Quick with agentic AI capabilities to replace our legacy BI tool, resulting in query response times up to 30 times faster, a 40 percent reduction in total cost of ownership, and turned embedded analytics into a product that generates revenue.
JVM memory, CPU, and classpath best practices for Java containers on AWS
In this post, we explain how the JVM interacts with the container runtime and the host kernel, and walk through configuration best practices that help you prevent these issues.
Migrate from AIX or Windows Db2 to Amazon RDS for Db2
In this post, we provide step-by-step instructions for migrating an IBM Db2 database from on-premises AIX or Windows servers to Amazon RDS for Db2 using native Db2 tools (db2look and db2move). We also cover AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) as an alternative approach. It also covers best practices to verify data integrity and minimize cutover time.
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