Creator Highlight: Rostislav Markov, Principal Architect in Strategic Industries

The Creator Highlight sequence pulls again the curtain on a few of AWS’s most prolific authors. Learn on to search out out extra about our very personal Rostislav Markov’s journey, in his personal phrases!

At Amazon Internet Companies (AWS), we obsess over clients, and this drives our every day operations. As an architect, I all the time search for progressive options to frequent issues our AWS customers face. One in all my favourite issues about my work is the chance to affect our providers roadmap by taking suggestions from our clients. Each matter I write about comes from my work with AWS clients and our service groups.

Since becoming a member of in 2017, I’ve labored on initiatives starting from Cloud Foundations to migration and modernization, to new growth initiatives. I labored with corporations in automotive, banking and insurance coverage, chemical compounds, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, media and leisure. All through my journey, I’ve noticed first-hand that each firm—huge and small—has its personal journey to the cloud, and there are all the time frequent patterns from one expertise to the following. The excellent news is if you happen to face a problem, likelihood is someone has already skilled the identical issue and located an answer. Because of this I really like studying about frequent patterns within the AWS Structure Weblog.

In 2020, my AWS journey took me from Munich, Germany, to New York, US, the place I at present dwell. I nonetheless go to my first AWS clients however, now, of their US places of work, and have in the meantime labored with many different corporations. After 5 years in AWS, I’m nonetheless continually studying about our providers and progressive options for a number of business points. Often, I write about them on the AWS Structure Weblog or current at our public conferences.

One in all my favourite moments was 4 years in the past on the AWS Summit Berlin. I introduced along with Kathleen DeValk, former Chief Architect at Siemens, about IoT at Siemens and designing microservices for very giant scale. This yr, I used to be again on stage with Christos Dovas, Head of Cloud-Native Automation at BMW Group, speaking about BMW’s journey to DevOps.

Left: Rostislav Markov and Kathleen DeValk / Proper: Christos Dovas and Rostislav Markov

What’s on my thoughts currently

My present focus at work is on fashionable software ideas. I work with AWS clients on elevating their software deployment requirements and creating options for frequent enterprise use instances in strategic industries. I look ahead to writing extra blogs on these and lots of different matters—keep tuned!

My favourite weblog posts

Queue Integration with Third-party Companies on AWS

I wrote this weblog submit in 2021 whereas working with scientific analysis groups in healthcare and life sciences. It addresses third-party providers that don’t natively help AWS APIs and greatest practices, comparable to polling, that require a fault-tolerant integration layer.

As Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, mentioned at AWS re:Invent in 2019, “Every part fails, on a regular basis.” On this resolution, the RunTask API was used to clarify how retry and error dealing with may be added to your software.

Particular thanks go to Sam Dengler, former Principal Developer Advocate with the AWS Compute Companies staff, who helped me discover the appropriate focus for this weblog submit, and from whom I nonetheless be taught as we speak.

On-premises and AWS queue integration for third-party providers utilizing AWS Lambda

Save effort and time in assessing your groups’ architectures with pattern-based structure evaluations

This submit summarized my classes working with 500 builders of a worldwide industrial manufacturing firm. Their IoT resolution needed to go dwell inside 6 months, however they didn’t have prior AWS expertise.

Through the use of a pattern-based strategy to architecting and constructing purposes, we have been capable of full the evaluations inside 2 weeks and make the structure evaluations enjoyable, inspiring, and a team-based expertise.

I’ve reused this pattern-based growth strategy on nearly all of my initiatives, together with the one I’m at present engaged on: deciding on the V1 AWS design patterns with the information middle exits of a big life sciences firm. If you’re curious and wish to be taught extra, discover the AWS whitepaper on Cloud-Pushed Enterprise Transformation on AWS.

Proposed AWS providers to be used by growth groups

Level-in-time restore for Amazon S3 buckets

Probably the greatest issues about working with AWS is receiving significant buyer suggestions on a regular basis and having the means to behave on it. This weblog submit is an instance of buyer suggestions in manufacturing, media, and leisure industries utilizing certainly one of my favourite AWS providers—Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Prospects requested a easy approach to do point-in-time restoration on the bucket stage. My colleague, Gareth Eagar, Senior Options Architect, and I labored with the service staff to affect the service roadmap and revealed an answer with this weblog submit.

I really like going again to fundamentals, right here with Amazon S3 versioning, and studying extra about our foundational providers, whereas having a ton of enjoyable with my colleague alongside the best way.

Level-in-time restore for Amazon S3 buckets