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joelrwilliams1on Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

Here's the deep dive talk from re:Invent 2023

joelrwilliams1on Amazon Aurora Limitless Database

I'm going to guess that Amazon.com will be one of the first to find all of the limits.

joelrwilliams1on Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)

This is the Internet content I live for.

joelrwilliams1on Ask HN: What are some good resources for learning about low level disk/file IO?

I stumbled across this Carnegie Mellon University database course a year or two ago and this guy gets really deep into the technologies behind a database. Here's the list of YouTube videos of lectures that the professor has posted online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...

joelrwilliams1on Let's Build a Compiler (1988)

Goodness, this takes me back to a my junior year of my Computer Science undergrad degree. One of my classes was one long project of writing a compiler to handle the professor's made up programming language.

That was a long semester.

joelrwilliams1on JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source

Wonder how does it compare to DynamoDB

joelrwilliams1on Migrating from Supabase

What was most shocking to me was that it took a week to migrate 40GB.

I once migrated 1TB from RDS Oracle to RDS Aurora MySQL in 6 hours. I'm not familiar with Supabase, maybe there's a lot more to the data migration process?

joelrwilliams1on See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

The secret life of packets.

joelrwilliams1on SNOBOL (“StriNg Oriented and SymBOlic Language”)

While studying Computer Science as an undergrad, I took a SNOBOL course (or maybe it one of the languages taught in a general coding course) ...either way, it was glorious. I love languages that are 'task-oriented'.

My all-time favorite was GPSS (General Purpose Simulation System) which would simulate transactions in a model...think of cars arriving from four directions at a traffic light. You could tweak the car arrival times and the length of red/green lights and get different outputs for 'wait time'.

I loved it so much, I asked my professor if there were good opportunities for a career using GPSS. He answered 'no' (LOL) and so I never pursued it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPSS

joelrwilliams1on 40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi

Under-seen and under-appreciated film.

joelrwilliams1on Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion

Ohio has tons of problems, no one should ever put their infra in us-east-2 (shhhhhh...don't let the secret out )

joelrwilliams1on Ask HN: Is Satya Nadella the best tech CEO of last decade?

You tell 'em, Steve...sweat-stained shirt and all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc

joelrwilliams1on Google Cloud Europe service disruption

5-10 minutes is accurate for creating and rolling out changes to a Global Accelerator

joelrwilliams1on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres

I've run across this in Oracle and MySQL as well...and--same solution as you--have split out the or conditions using union all.

joelrwilliams1on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data

That honor belongs to XML

joelrwilliams1on F**k Teams

I laughed. I cried.

joelrwilliams1on Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud

This.

We're a small company that used to have a full rack in a colo, and have completely migrated to AWS 6 years ago. Our cloud costs are ~20x what our colo cost was.

There are things we use in the cloud (DynamoDB, Aurora, CDN, etc.) that I just don't want to have to build and manage on my own. For us, the managed services are very much worth the extra cost.

I couldn't believe how much better life is without having to diagnose failed DB backups.