One of the biggest reasons why we left Aurora for an rds solution was that basic ddl operations like table alters would fail to work on db sizes greater than 2TB. Such operations required double the amount of disk storage for copying. We were forced to solutions like github Ghost or Percona if we wanted to stick with Aurora. After thoroughly testing these solutions, it would take close to a month to perform such an operation on large tables. An rds solution only took a few days. I recommend a pure rds solution for db sizes greater than 1tb.
To each his own. React makes sense for some developers. They love the verbosity and powerful libraries. However I prefer Vue.js on many levels. The creator initially worked as a designer; therefore a lot of the vision for the tool adheres to a strict usability and designing standards for the user or developer. I feel react was rushed giving priority to features over usability, adoption and clean apis.
This will be fun. I’m glad we now have some performance improvements to some common methods. For those considering playing with Ruby, you should! One thing I’m surprised not many has mentioned what makes ruby unique and awesome, BLOCKS!