Skip to main content

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Share your experience with the FAS IT-Playbook by taking this brief survey

Whitepapers

Whitepapers have assisted FAS significantly in the understanding of technologies, and how to apply them throughout the enterprise. While many of the white papers are drafted specifically for a unit within FAS, they were drafted with the expectation that they can become key contributions and resources.

Whitepaper Topic: Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)

DocumentDB vs AWS DynamoDB - Comparison (Pros and Cons) between AWS.

Elasticsearch vs ElastiCache

AWS Elasticsearch Kibana - Kibana is a free open-source data visualization and exploration tool used for log and time-series analytics, application monitoring, and operational intelligence use cases.

AWS QuickSight Pros and Cons - Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data.

Whitepaper Topic: Analytics

Analytics Engine Macro-Patterns - An exploration and explanation of how analytics solutions are put together from stem to stern, with a focus on an analytics engine.

Whitepaper Topic: ASSIST

Datadog Integration with Google Spaces - Integrating the FCS MCaaS Datadog alerts and alarms to be broadcast into google chat spaces. This is a brand new feature that can be leveraged quickly by any MCaaS tenant.

ASSIST GFE Process - Learn how ASSIST migrated the development process from contractor laptops to GSA Government Furnished Equipment (GFE) laptops to enable development of ASSIST applications using the FCS CI/CD pipeline.

ASSIST Hypercare - Read about the approach ASSIST used to improve post-release remediation efforts to help achieve SLA standards and provide the Help Desk with increased capacity for support.

ASSIST Postgres - Explore the lessons learned from ASSIST’s migration from Oracle to Aurora Serverless V2 PostgreSQL as its database solution.

Whitepaper Topic: CI/CD

Source Control: Common Git Workflows - Branches can get out of hand, and a proper flow needs to be implemented in order to deal with them in an orderly and controlled way.

Source Control: Semantic Versioning - Semantic versioning (SemVer) is a way of numbering the software release version. It contains three numbers. SemVer helps the users to decide if they want to upgrade to a newer version or not.

Whitepaper Topic: FAS Containerization

API Delivery - Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have changed how connections are made to different services by replacing the need for creating a single large application by creating API routes that can be built rapidly and maintained easily.

Image Management - A review of a few of the many image registries their pros and cons, and recommendations for GSA FAS-IT.

Infrastructure as Code - Provides an overview, and pros and cons, of the two leading provisioning tools, Terraform and Cloudformation.

Monitoring and Alerting - Monitoring and alerting is a critical aspect of any infrastructure architecture, when it comes to containerization there are additional challenges. There are two categories of monitoring that are critical for a containerized infrastructure, active monitoring and log aggregation.

Orchestration - A review both of the orchestration platforms and compare the EC2 and the Fargate options to provide a pros and cons comparison and make a platform recommendation for GSA FAS-IT.

Secrets Management - Analysis of two major secrets management tools: AWS Secrets and Hashicorp vault, and a pros and cons comparison in order to make a platform recommendation for GSA FAS-IT.

Whitepaper Topic: Software Load Balancing and Proxying

Load Balancing and Proxying - Load balancing is a technique to distribute data and services across multiple servers. Distributing this lightens the load on each server, which in return increases the performance.

Whitepaper Topic: TMSS

TMSS 2.0 Whitepaper - Analysis of TMSS 2.0 project which involved a complex migration and convergence from legacy mainframe technologies and subscription-based services (SaaS) into a single unified cloud-based solution.