Author: renato

  • ADDO 2022

    Thank you #alldaydevops for having me today. It was a pleasure discussing the advantages of serverless databases and playing with Aurora Serverless v2. And I still do not understand why the tax accountant questions an ironing board as an essential item for a software engineer. Now it is the time to listen to some great…

  • Serverless Architecture Conference 2022

    Sometimes you have to cross the ocean to attend a conference. Sometimes a short bike ride across the city is all you need. This week I had the opportunity to run a workshop on serverless databases (my very first in Berlin!) and give a talk about the future of relational databases on the cloud at…

  • The best way to optimize IOPS on RDS MySQL

    Best way to optimize IOPS and have fewer problems with data is not to have the data in the first place.

  • Keep Your Presentation Simple: How a Pigeon Hijacked My Talk

    Load tests using JMeter and shopping patterns are more meaningful but often not powerful enough to explain a new concept. Absurd examples might do better and keep the audience focused, the risk is to take the game too far.

  • ADDO 2022: Drawing the NYC Skyline with a serverless database

    I am pleased to be virtually on stage at All Day DevOps for the third year in a row on November 10th. In the last two years I talked at the the world’s largest DevOps conference about the good, the bad and the ugly of Serverless Databases and cost optimization on AWS. My session this…

  • CloudWildBoar and 100% Availability

    No system provides 100% availability, so the pragmatic question is whether or not CloudWildBoar delivers availability that is so high that most users don’t worry about its outages.

  • An Absurd Way to Try Amazon DynamoDB On-Demand

    There are different ways to learn and test Amazon DynamoDB on-demand and test how the database process requests without capacity planning.