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🚨 The DynamoDB Book is now available 🚨
Learn how to use one of the fastest growing databases around.
450 pages of tips, strategies, and more.
Alex DeBrie
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Alex DeBrie
@alexbdebrie
💻 Independent consultant
⭐️ AWS Data Hero
📖 Author of DynamoDBBook.com. Creator of DynamoDBGuide.com
⚡️ Ex-@goserverless, @HudlEngineering
✉️ DM's open!
- Listen, I'm not a containers guy but I just built a container on my M1 Mac that didn't work on Fargate because it was the wrong architecture and I thought that was the whole point of Docker.
- ❗️Wrote something new today: Event-driven architectures vs. event-based compute in serverless applications. I see these terms used interchangeably a lot, but they are different, and the implications are important!
- lol S3 does 1PB/second data transfer at peak 😳😳 youtube.com/watch?v=NXehLy…
- 👋 I did a deep dive on database & distributed system consistency over the last 2 months, and finally got my thoughts together. Check it out. alexdebrie.com/posts/database… High-level points below.
- Wrote up my takeaways on the new DynamoDB paper from AWS. Really interesting stuff in there, both from a technical perspective and a user needs perspective. Great supplement to the 2007 Dynamo Paper.
- Thinking about taking 6 months off of everything to work on frontend skills. #1 skill I wish I had.
- When I hear someone say “Serverless development is too hard!”, 96.2% of the time it’s because they’re deploying with: - Raw CloudFormation and bash scripts - AWS CLI + bash scripts - AWS console Don’t do this! Use a deployment tool! There are so many — pick one at random.
- Finally got around to watching this one. Masterclass in observability. 💯 youtu.be/MARiKxvrdmc?si…
- *deep breath* Just sent the email to officially announce that The DynamoDB Book will be released April 7th (one week from today!) 💥 I'll be updating the landing page with packaging, etc. over the next few days but sign up for updates here -->
