If you own a website or are thinking of creating one, you should be mindful about your ecological footprint. Because the tech industry plays a big role in the current climate crisis. With its data centers, large manufacturing operations, and huge amounts of e-waste, it’s accountable for nearly 4% of global CO2 emissions. Which, shockingly […]
I run into all kinds of challenges with consulting services. At this occassion I was involved into a performance issue with a rapidly growing Church app called DonkeyMobile. Since upgrading their Aurora RDS MySQL instances from 5.7 to 8.0 they were hitting a CPU bottleneck on one of the reader nodes. This is the kind […]
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) and Amazon Aurora are both managed database services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), but they have some key differences. Here’s an overview of each: Amazon RDS: Amazon Aurora: Key Differences: In summary, both Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora are powerful managed database services, and the choice between them depends […]