Category: cloud

  • Things Fall Apart: Navigating Managed Databases for Over a Decade as a Non-DBA

    Learn to navigate database benchmarks wisely! From crashing managed instances to skyrocketing storage costs, I’ll share hard-earned lessons from a decade of managing production databases on the cloud without DBA expertise.Read the full article.

  • InfoQ – March 2025

    Here are the articles I wrote for InfoQ in March 2025, covering everything from Fauna shutting down to the available European cloud providers. Read the full article.

  • Amazon S3 Around the World in 15 Buckets #DataPopkorn 2025

    Let’s play a replication game on the cloud with Amazon S3. In this short talk, we will follow an S3 object on a 16-replication journey around the world, encountering surprising challenges, and learning one thing or two. Read the full article.

  • Data Popkorn 2025

    Around the world with Amazon S3, in just a five-minute talk. See you soon online at Data Popkorn 2025!

  • InfoQ – February 2025

    Here are the articles I wrote for InfoQ in February 2025, covering everything from ransomware on Amazon S2 to the GLIDE Valkey client, from the benefits of ARM Instances to FerretDB v2.0. Read the full article.

  • AWS Community Day Italy 2025

    See you soon. In Milan. Read the full article.

  • InfoQ – January 2025

    From Apache Hudi 1.0 to the latest controversies in the database world, from AWS Glue 5.0 to data transfer terminals, here are the articles I wrote for InfoQ in January 2025. Read the full article.