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Fernando Rocha's Portfolio

Curation of blog posts, articles, whitepapers, and videos of public presentations.

Whitepapers

Amplify Datatore

Amplify DataStore is a persistent on-device storage repository for developers to write, read, and observe changes to data. This whitepaper discusses the benefits, implementation details, and use cases of Amplify DataStore. This information will help your solutions architects, tech leads, and CTOs decide when and how to utilize Amplify DataStore in their solutions.

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Blog Posts

Enrich your location data with Azure Maps | Microsoft

Location information can be very simple or very detailed. For a person delivering a package to certain house, an address with street number, name, city, and state could be more than enough information for them to find the right place. For a vehicle tracking system where you have a map with moving dots representing trucks in real-time, these pieces of data may not be enough to provide clear information to a dispatcher. Adding the latitude and longitude of the vehicle to present its current and historical positions is more important.

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Best practices: Securing your Amazon Location Service resources | Amazon Web Services

Location data is subjected to heavy scrutiny by security experts. Knowing the current position of a person, vehicle, or asset can provide industries with many benefits, whether to understand where a current delivery is, how many people are inside a venue, or to optimize routing for a fleet of vehicles. This blog post explains how Amazon Web Services (AWS) helps keep location data secured in transit and at rest, and how you can leverage additional security features to help keep information safe and compliant.

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Your AWS re:Invent 2021 guide to Amazon Location Service Sessions | Amazon Web Services

Amazon Location Service, since its general availability release in June of 2021, has been adopted by many customers who need easy and accurate access to location-based data. The service team has been working very hard into supporting these customers and releasing new features that help them even more.

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Accurately predicting future sales at Clearly using Amazon Forecast | Amazon Web Services

This post was cowritten by Ziv Pollak, Machine Learning Team Lead, and Alex Thoreux, Web Analyst at Clearly. A pioneer in online shopping, Clearly launched their first site in 2000. Since then, they’ve grown to become one of the biggest online eyewear...

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Create an iOS tracker application with Amazon Location Service and AWS Amplify | Amazon Web Services

This article was written by Fernando Rocha Silva and Panna Shetty Emergency management teams are constantly tackling one crisis after another, whether it is managing the COVID pandemic or battling raging wild fires across California. These frontline...

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Videos

Level up with Azure Integration Services

In this series we will explore various components from the Azure Integration Services umbrella, including Azure Logic Apps, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Azure API Management. Through practical demonstrations, insightful discussions, and real-world examples, we'll walk you through the process of building robust and scalable integration solutions using Azure's powerful suite of tools.

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AWS re:Invent 2021 - Building the re:Invent app with Amazon Location Service

Thousands of guests come to Las Vegas to participate in re:Invent, the biggest annual AWS event. Attendees move from venue to venue to attend breakout sessions, chalk talks, and more. To help them get where they need to go, AWS provides transportation and directions. In this session, learn how Amazon Location Service is helping the re:Invent team provide attendees and fleets with accurate information on routes, locations, distances, and estimated travel times. See how they are utilizing a fully managed serverless solution to support attendees with clear and trustworthy location data and how you can do the same at your own events.

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AWS re:Invent 2021 - Build a high-throughput asset-tracking architecture

Industry leaders are well aware of how geospatial data can help them optimize asset utilization, deliveries, geomarketing, and many other use cases. However, the process of tracking assets effectively presents challenges that go beyond the business level. This session uses vehicle tracking as an example to show how you can architect a serverless solution that tackles the technical challenges that this topic conventionally presents, including scalability, complexity, and real-time aspects.

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AWS Online Tech Talks - Build Secure, Location-Based Applications on AWS

Customers are building location-based applications across myriad use cases from geomarketing to asset tracking and delivery. For example, a fire department may build an application to increase the safety of their volunteers using geofences, or muster...

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AWS AMER Summit Aug 2021: Build secure, location-based applications on AWS

Organizations are building location-based applications across myriad use cases, from geomarketing to asset tracking and delivery. For example, a fire department may build an application to make it safer for volunteers using geofences, or muster points, to establish a designated safety zone in distress situations. Amazon Location Service and AWS Amplify can help you build secure, production-ready applications with location functionality, faster. In this session, dive into common use cases for location-based applications and learn how to build an application with geofences and asset tracking. In addition, learn how to create a geofence, securely track devices within that geofence, and deliver a secure, location-based application at scale.

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Flutter Canada Meetup - AWS Amplify DataStore

AWS Amplify DataStore on Flutter. Presentation and demo.

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