We’ve long had content delivery networks (CDN), that help speed up and reduce latency for your web visitors. This works by making sure that the CDN has servers that are physically closer and on a better network connection (fewer hops) compared to where your visitor is based. You maintain multiple copies of the same content… Continue reading On edge architecture
Tag: Cloud Computing
Elastic RDBMS with Amazon Aurora
From earlier posts you might have realized I grew tired of DynamoDB. As soon as Amazon Aurora was made available I did a non-comprehensive test to see what it would do as a NoSQL store. From a pricing perspective Aurora seemed to stack up nicely. Since then I switched my use from DynamoDB over to Aurora,… Continue reading Elastic RDBMS with Amazon Aurora
The curious case of DynamoDB pricing
Each year, during the AWS re:invent conference I’m always eager to follow the keynote presentations, and then selectively dig into some of the breakout sessions. Besides the Docker integration, Aurora interested me quite a bit. I’m really looking forward to seeing some further performance tests coming out, something I’m sure will happen as soon a people… Continue reading The curious case of DynamoDB pricing
Building a better DynamoDB throughput scaling tool, part 2
A month back I blogged about wanting a better throughput scaling tools for DynamoDB. Not having been able to find an existing tool that ticked all my boxes, I ended up scratching my own itch and developed a small Java tool that runs in the background, monitoring a set of DynamoDB tables. The tool satisfy… Continue reading Building a better DynamoDB throughput scaling tool, part 2
Building a better DynamoDB throughput scaling tool
I use DynamoDB, Amazon Web Services’ managed NoSQL data store. It’s a fantastic tool, where there’s basically no management needs placed on me. That’s with two exceptions: Backups Throughput scaling Backups is fine. I built a small tool that gets the latest changes and stores them elsewhere. Throughput scaling is a bit more involved so I… Continue reading Building a better DynamoDB throughput scaling tool