Building an Insurance Claims Processing Pipeline on AWS That Fails Loudly

Claims pipelines rarely crash. They succeed, emit clean JSON, and hand a wrong number to a payment system. Six failure families in an insurance claims processing pipeline on AWS, with the Textract, Bedrock Data Automation and Step Functions details that decide whether a bad extraction is visible or silent.

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Streaming Shopify Events into AWS Without Losing Orders

Wiring Shopify webhooks into Amazon EventBridge takes an afternoon. Keeping every order is the hard part. A walk through the five failure families that actually bite when streaming Shopify events into AWS: the partner source that silently drops everything, duplicate and out-of-order deliveries, rule patterns that match nothing, targets that fail without a dead-letter queue, and the 64 KB metering rule that quietly inflates the bill.

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