Category: cloud

  • My Journey Through the AWS Blog: Lessons Learned and Random Statistics

    Last week I checked the (primary) AWS blog. I went through all the articles from the welcome post in 2004 until the very last oneRead the full article.

  • The Best AWS re:Invent Ever? Looking Back at Eleven Editions

    There is no year that I do not read many “This was the best re:Invent ever!” comments, posts, or articles in the weeks after the AWS conference in Las Vegas. While it is likely true in terms of fun, the number of announcements, or personal networking, I tend to think we are biased by the…

  • InfoQ – December 2022

    From Autoclass for Cloud Storage on Google Cloud to VPC Lattice, from SkyPilot to re:Invent: a recap of my articles for InfoQ in December.Read the full article.

  • Blue/Green Deployments for RDS: How Fast is a Switchover? 

    AWS recently announced the general availability of RDS Blue/Green Deployments, a new feature for RDS and Aurora to perform blue/green database updates. One of the aspects that caught my eye is how fast a switchover is. Read the full article.

  • AWS re:Invent 2022 Crossworld

    Test your knowledge of the key announcements from this year’s re:Invent with a crossword!Read the full article.

  • InfoQ – November 2022

    From a serverless cache to new AWS regions, from a public NTP Service to a class-action law­suit against GitHub Copilot: a recap of my articles for InfoQ in November.Read the full article.

  • How to Cook Spaghetti Aglio e Olio According to Amazon Rekognition

    This is a tech recipe using Amazon Rekognition, a service that simplifies operational media analysis tasks by providing fully managed, purpose-built APIs powered by ML. At your peril, if you do not understand how the APIs work and how to manage confidence levels.Read the full article.