Author: renato
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DeveloperWeek Global: Cloud Conference
Is serverless the future of relational databases? Looking forward to be part of DeveloperWeek Global: Cloud Conference, one of the world’s largest virtual software developer event series, and discuss relational databases on the cloud. See you online at the end of September!
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All Day DevOps 2020
Looking forward to be virtually on stage at All Day DevOps, the world’s largest DevOps conference, next November. The abstract of my talk is here.
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A Second Look at Amazon RDS Proxy
Last week AWS announced finally the GA of RDS Proxy and I thought it was a good time to take a second look at the service. Any further improvements in the failover? Can you now change the instance size once the proxy has been created?
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Cost optimization on AWS, a live conversation with Federico Razzoli
Yesterday I had the chance to talk live with Federico Razzoli about cost optimization on the cloud, with the main focus on relational databases. How to save a few dollars running MySQL on AWS? What about RDS? Check out the video, hope you find some useful tips!
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Generating reports and KPIs with throw-away databases
We all love metrics. We all need numbers. And different stakeholders need different numbers. Numbers that will drive key decisions inside your organization and for your customers. Becoming a data driven organization requires having reliable data in the first place (…) You can read my post about generating reports and KPIs with throw-away databases on…
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Figuring out the cost of versioning on Amazon S3
[Update 2021: you can now figure out the cost of versioning using S3 Storage Lens] We all love versioning on Amazon s3. It gives us peace of mind and the ability to recover our data if something goes wrong. As for the Amazon documentation: Versioning is a means of keeping multiple variants of an object…
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Changing innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit on the cloud?
I am always curious to find the differences between managed databases on public clouds. Let’s consider for example innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit, a key system variable for MySQL. You cannot change it on Cloud SQL for MySQL (the managed service offered by Google) so you cannot make a durability/speed trade-off. I can see only a few reasons for…