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AWS Proofs of Concept
A hands-on showcase of AWS proof-of-concept projects - where I architect, build, and refine real-world cloud solutions end to end. Each post walks through design decisions, configuration details, code snippets, and lessons learned to demonstrate practical expertise with AWS services.


Salad Bowls & DNA Files: Mastering Fan-Out/Fan-In in the Cloud
Building a Neighborhood Salad : Imagine you’re hosting a big picnic and decide to make one gigantic salad. You hand each of six neighbors...
Melvin Jones
Jun 92 min read


Embracing Resilience: Why the Circuit Breaker Pattern Is Your Service’s Best Friend
A practical guide to implementing the Circuit Breaker pattern with Resilience4j in AWS Lambda—complete with metrics in CloudWatch and automated alerts—to protect your services from cascading failures and ensure rapid recovery.
Melvin Jones
May 243 min read


Saga Pattern Demonstration: Order System in AWS
This article showcases the use of the Saga pattern in an proof-of-concept I built, an AWS-based order processing system to manage distributed transactions and ensure consistency.
Melvin Jones
May 74 min read


Sentiment Analysis Application and Demo
In this demo, I demonstrate a proof of concept for sentiment analysis using Hugging Face’s sentiment analysis model.
Melvin Jones
May 71 min read
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