AWS Aurora Serverless v2: Architecture and Performance Guide
Aurora Serverless v2 is what v1 should have been. I don’t say that lightly — I ran v1 in production for two years …
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NGINX Ingress is the Honda Civic of ingress controllers. Boring, reliable, gets the job done. I’ve deployed it on …
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I deleted roughly 2,000 lines of orchestration code from our payment processing service last year. Replaced it with …
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