Databases

Migrating to Microdatabases with Aurora and Babelfish

In our experience, customers often focus on modernizing front-end and back-end compute systems and focus less on their back-end data stores. This is despite the ever-growing list of benefits in moving away from commercial database engines.   Inflexible architecture is limiting your options In the not so distant past, I found myself in this very predicament …

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re:Invent 2021 Recap – Peter DeSantis Keynote

A keynote from Peter DeSantis always promises an expert guided tour of some of the inner technical workings of the AWS platform. In the past this has included in-depth explorations of the AWS Nitro System, the AWS Graviton2 processors, and AWS’ global fiber infrastructure. This year, Peter dove into the recently announced Amazon S3 Glacier …

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Spotlight on #CockroachDB

Spotlight on CockroachDB

The construction, process and usage of databases has evolved a lot over the last few decades. Traditional relational databases were enough to work with the data present at that time, but with the innate reliance on the Internet, the progression of cloud-native architecture, and the advancement of how businesses utilise and analyse data science, relational …

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Identity and Access for Servers and Databases with #StrongDM

Identity and Access for Servers and Databases with StrongDM

Distribution of assets and information has its challenges. When you have multiple credentials, databases to manage, SSH keys, and other mission-critical components of your cloud ecosystem (or ecosystems) scattered across multiple users, clusters, and devices, simple tasks such as checking an audit log for a point of failure can turn into a nightmare. Unfortunately, this …

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