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Hey Reader ππ½ This issue will be about a recent real-world experience that just went off right with the new year! π Once upon a time... π¦ It all started in September 2024 where Edgio, the main CDN provider we used for one of my large enterprise projects, filed for bankruptcy. Edgio was natively integrated into Azure, allowing you to use it without leaving the Azure ecosystem. It also featured a powerful rules engine (allowing for all kinds of conditions, redirects and rewrites) and didnβt...
β Reading time: 13 minutes π Main Learning: How to Run Apps on Fargate via ECS πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ When building applications on AWS, we need to run our code somewhere: a computation service. There are a lot of well-known and mature computation services on AWS. Youβll often find Lambda as the primary choice, as itβs where you donβt need to manage any infrastructure. You only need to bring your code - itβs Serverless β‘οΈ. However, more options can be...
β Reading time: 10 minutes π Main Learning: Running Postgres on Aurora DSQL with Drizzle πΎ GitHub Repository βοΈ Read the Full Post Online π Hey Reader ππ½ With re:Invent 2024, AWS finally came up with an answer to what many people (including us) asked for years: "What if there were something like DynamoDB but for SQL?" With Amazon Aurora DSQL, this is finally possible. Itβs not just a βscales-to-zeroβ solution like Aurora Serverless V2. It is a true distributed, serverless, pay-per-use...