Articles from JR Beaudoin

November 09, 2021JR Beaudoin5 min read

In a recent post, I explained how to run Blender render jobs on AWS Lambda functions, using Lambda container images. As a follow-up, today I am looking at the same workload running on Cloud Run, the easiest serverless way to run a container on Google Cloud Platform. Test protocol vCPUs and RAM A…

August 28, 2021JR Beaudoin4 min read

You can fairly easily leverage AWS Lambda to render scenes with Blender. It can make sense to use Lambda functions if you need to render a large number of assets in little time and if each asset is simple enough to be loaded and rendered in reasonable time (within the maximum lifetime of a Lambda…

August 11, 2021JR Beaudoin2 min read

We’ve recently built a secure data pipeline for a customer called Founders First Capital Partners. They needed to automatically load large amounts of financial data into Salesforce, their CRM, in order to make investment decisions. We used Amazon’s managed data integration service — AppFlow — which…

April 27, 2020JR Beaudoin2 min read

We are proud to have been selected as a Serverless Framework official partner. It rewards our investment in the technology and reflects our strong belief that this framework is currently the best in the market. Using a Framework When Going Serverless is a Must Recently, one of our clients’ technical…

March 30, 2015JR Beaudoin5 min read

// <![CDATA[ var w = 580, h = 400, backgroundColor = 'black'; // ]]> The code shown below comes from the D3js website and the tons of examples it provides. What is the force layout? D3's layouts are methods that let you easily display complex datasets in relevant charts with little effort. You can…