Fun + very good post from Jacob Gillespie about reducing EC2 instance boot time.

Love posts like these. Pure catnip

depot.dev/blog/faster-ec…

Just started reading the DynamoDB book by Alex DeBrie and wow, I wish I'd picked it up sooner! 📚 The writing is clear, and I'm gaining a much better understanding of databases. Highly recommend for anyone looking to learn about NoSQL! #DynamoDB #NoSQL

Darryl Ruggles Alex DeBrie I think the thing to understand about AWS’s inter-AZ networking charges is that they’re a *tax* designed to discourage behaviors, not a price that you pay because you derive value from something. AWS has created paved roads that don’t require you to pay the tax.

Whoa — no more cross-az charges in Azure

Why aren’t theaters showing Fury Road this week?

I'm legit shocked at the Apple Developer site. Regularly takes multiple seconds to fetch a list of the ~10 most recent versions of an app.

And this is the form to update my address. Just a text box saying 'paste some info in' with another text box of 'why are you updating?'

🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀 This Friday we had a little trip in space to explore the wonderful universe of #AWS #DynamoDB ! It was intense but hopefully you'll find it was worth it!

Enjoy our latest episode of AWS Bites #podcast

awsbites.com/123-what-do-yo…

i'm doing a paid workshop on june 4th and we're going to build an e-commerce platform on aws with sst ion

selling seats for 40% off until tuesday, limited availability, hope to see some of your faces there ❤️

read more and sign up here:
proaws.dev/events/build-a…

Why do so many houses have offices at the front of the house, right next to the front door? That's the last place I want an office -- kids running everywhere, all kinds of traffic. What gives

Literally cannot imagine being able to do this

Ok, follow-up on yesterday's poll.

Would you rather have your cloud:

1. accidentally delete your account and everything in it, or

2. have a security breach that leaks your data?

Imagine in both cases that it's purely your cloud's fault and you are the only customer affected.

How will the GCP / UniSuper incident change how you architect going forward?

1. I'm adding cross-cloud backups

2. No change because I was already doing cross-cloud backups

3. No change because this is a freak accident that's not worth the time to mitigate

JQ is 1000x better with ChatGPT

Top-tier subject line here

Cosign all of this. Especially the first one.

When talking to people that are going on their own, I always tell them to think about how they will get clients.

There are different ways to do it, but you need to understand how it will happen.