• Amazon’s DynamoDB — 10 years later: Dynamodb came out of a need to improve reliability of the db for their ecommerce website. Vertical scale strategies of relational dbs where the operator owns partitioning and sharding. NoSQL / Dynamo and then later DynamoDB changed this. Transactions shifted to the application I guess from the db among other big differences. Horizontal scaling became relatively easy
  • SKIP grep, use AWK: Apparently you don’t have to filter input using grep before hitting awk. Awk can do this already! Awk is a little beast of a line oriented input processor. I bought a book about it not long ago. This is inspiring me to read it :)
  • AWS Community Radio: ReInvent 2021: 2 hour podcast with Randall Hunt and Ric

Network changes last year Best instance type for mongodb but very expensive

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