Author: renato

  • Apple’s Crimea map, two months later

    At the end of November Apple was in the news because of the choice to change Crimea map to meet Russian demands. Handling disputed territories in online services is a wide and challenging topic without a simple solution. Combining a critical area like Crimea with the largest tech company in the world, makes news. Let’s…

  • Talk at AWS Group Meetup

    Interesting Berlin AWS Group Meetup at EMnify last night: I learned a lot about CI/CD on AWS, figured out that AWS IoT might be already behind the elevators I use every day and I had the chance to talk about Amazon RDS Proxy. Thanks Arndt for organising the event and for the picture! You can…

  • A first look at Amazon RDS Proxy (II)

    “A First Look at Amazon RDS Proxy“: always happy to contribute to the Percona Community Blog and share my thoughts about relational databases on AWS.

  • A first look at Amazon RDS Proxy (I)

    I played a bit with Amazon RDS Proxy, one of the announcements of the latest AWS re:Invent, now available in preview. I will share some thoughts at the AWS User Group Meetup in Berlin next week: “A first look at Amazon RDS Proxy”. Hope to see you there!

  • How remote work can help us to reconnect with nature

    We need to kick the indoor habit and new technologies and the rise of remote work can actually make that possible. My thoughts on how remote work can help us reconnect with nature as originally posted on Caryzma. Just a couple of generations ago, most jobs had a significant outdoor component. Today, instead, most jobs…

  • Look Mom No Hands!

    The slides of my talk today at Codemotion Berlin 2019 are below. Inspiring day at the Kulturbrauerei, listening to Hadi Hariri’s keynote and talking about my experience and challenges running relational databases on AWS. But almost all a chance for my daughter to play Mission to the moon at Codemotion Kids. Well done Codemotion!

  • Codemotion Berlin 2019

    In less than two weeks, Codemotion will be back in Berlin! I am thrilled to be back on stage at the Kulturbrauerei, just a few minutes from where I live, and talk about my experiences and challenges running relational databases on AWS: “Look Mom No Hands! Moving from a managed relational database to a serverless…