Author: renato

  • Codemotion “Devs Lunch Box”

    How to run MySQL on AWS – the recording of my short talk for Codemotion “Devs Lunch Box” is now available on the Codemotion platform. In about 10 minutes, I covered the main ways to deploy a MySQL (or a PostgreSQL) database on the largest cloud provider.

  • AWS Certified Database – Specialty

    Still thinking that this was my last AWS exam, but very happy to have passed the AWS Certified Database – Specialty Beta Exam in January and be one of the first ones to hold the new certification.

  • Last Week in AWS #148

    A discussion of One-Zone S3 and the potential for the destruction of an entire Availability Zone.

  • devopsdays Poznań

    Two years after my first conference in Poland, next May I will be in Poznań to talk about relational databases on the cloud at devopsdays. “Serverless databases: the good, the bad, and the ugly” will be the topic of my talk.

  • What is an Availability Zone destruction? Should I care?

    The resilience of the One Zone-IA option is not the same. Even Amazon suggests it for backups or easily re-creatable data only.

  • DevOps Pro Europe 2020

    I am very happy to be back on stage at DevOps Pro Europe 2020 in Lithuania next March. Topic of the talk? “Serverless databases: the good, the bad, and the ugly” See you in Vilnius!

  • Home exchange and remote working

    From Amsterdam to Marseille, from Rome to Barcelona. In many years of remote working, I have often relied on house swapping to have a home away from home. A few working days in a different city or a relaxing holiday. Earlier this year I wrote for Caryzma about one more reason I like it, sustainability.…