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SREday Amsterdam 2026 Q4
Hello, Amsterdam! Are serverless databases really as effortless and cost-efficient as their promises suggest? That was the question behind my session, “Five Hard Lessons from Five Years of So-Called Serverless Databases,” at SREday in Amsterdam yesterday. Always happy to be back at SREday events and to have another opportunity to visit the Netherlands!
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Ten Years of Prime Day: From 56 Billion Requests to 192 Million per Second
As a software practitioner, “192 million requests per second” or “213 million messages per second ” are not numbers I can really understand. Yes, they are big. But how big?
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Comsum 2026 – The Sound of Databases
Databases are not just about storing data. They are about time. And nothing exposes time like music. In this session, we use sound to explore how cloud databases behave under pressure. Instead of charts and traditional benchmarks, we listen.
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AWS Community Summit Manchester 2026
I heard a lot about the Comsum events over the last few years. Today, I attended my very first one, and I understand why they have such a great reputation.
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BED-Con 2026
Today I presented a new session I’ve been working on for a while, the so-called “Sound of Databases.”
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Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI
Today I was the moderator for an InfoQ Live roundtable on “Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI”
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AWS Community Day DACH
Thank you, Förderverein AWS Community DACH , for having me on stage today to discuss serverless databases on AWS.