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"Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments". With this launch, when you make updates to your DynamoDB account-level & table-level throughput quotas using AWS Service Quotas, your adjustments will get automatically approved & adjusted

"Distributed Design Pattern: Eventual Consistency with Vector Clocks" In this article, we’ll explore a real-world problem that arises in distributed systems, and we’ll walk through how Eventual Consistency and Vector Clocks work together to solve it.

RT @Werner: From restaurants handling the lunch rush to cloud systems balancing millions of requests, load management is crucial. @ask_mike…

RT @martinfowler: NEW § Users often have difficulty writing the most effective queries. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain Query Rewriting:…

RT @MarcJBrooker: One aspect of the work we describe in Systems Correctness Practices At AWS is the work @ankushpd and team have been doin…

"re:Invent 2024 Cost Optimization highlights that you were not expecting" With re:Invent 2024 in the books, and over 50 launch announcements, here are 4 that are the most excited.

"4 rituals that revolutionized my engineering teams". Nailing your ritual meetings can be a difficult job. How can you find the sweet spot between the right stakeholders and time management? by @DennisNerush

"Tech Debt isn’t Debt". Tackling tech debt doesn’t result in immediate functional improvements for the clients, but serves to make the product as a whole easier to maintain and improve. by Aviv Ben-Yosef

"10 Tips for keeping your AWS Lambda functions performant". To maintain high performance, there are several best practices to be adopted in order to keep response times low. Let’s dive into them. by Jake Bazin

"How To Determine if You Are Ready for a Leadership Position?" Embrace the role of a leader with openness and curiosity.

"Amazon CloudWatch now provides lock contention diagnostics for Aurora PostgreSQL". This feature helps you identify the root cause behind both ongoing and historical lock contention issues within minutes.

"How To Effectively Manage Technical Debt As An Engineering Manager" by Alex Ponomarev

RT @AWSIdentity: 🔒 Amazon Verified Permissions launched a step-by-step wizard to integrate external OIDC identity providers with Amazon API…

RT @BdKozlovski: Apache Iceberg is used at industry leaders like Apple, LinkedIn, Netflix, Stripe, Airbnb and Pinterest. But do you know h…

"Want to Build AI Agents? Tired of LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen & Other AI Agent Frameworks? "

"Build a fully server-less Web-socket API using AWS Lambda and @DynamoDB".

"The Secret To Engineering Management Is Doing “Nothing”. Your measure of success changes dramatically when you transition from an engineer to an engineering manager. by Alex Ponomarev

"Tips to save AWS cross-AZ traffic costs". In this article, we would like to discuss how to save cross-Availability Zone (AZ) costs. by Penny Han

"Architecture diagrams as code: Mermaid vs Architecture as Code". by Kevin O'Shea