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Great to see consolidation in this area. Observability is super important in the cloud/microservices era. Standardizing the collection of logs, metrics and tracing is a big win.

In this equation you are valuing the bootcamp and career placement portion of their offering at $0. If you were to value it $10-15k then it is a different story. At the end of the …

I am still praying that some day soon AWS will announce that they are joining Opencensus (along with Google, MS, Datadog, Prometheus)[1] in the hopes that we can move towards stand…

Would be great to see global network performance comparisons with smaller providers like Digital Ocean and OVH. Everyone always knocks AWS on their bandwidth pricing, yet the prici…

Yea, it definitely has limited immediate value compared to a database as long as it is on a closed network. However it does allow them to experiment with the technology in a contro…

Yea I really am hoping their Chromium based browser gives them the combination of broad compatibility and enterprise integration needed bring about the end of IE 11.

Private repos on Docker Hub is definitely a product, especially if you provide a seamless path for moving from source code on GitHub to images on Docker Hub to containers deployed …

A little off topic, but I wonder how long it will be before MS acquires Docker Inc. Seems like an even better fit for them now that they own GitHub. GitHub + Docker Hub on the deve…

Lots of mention of CircleCI and Gitlab as the reason for Travis' downfall, which is very true. I also think GitHub announcing GitHub Actions[1] may have been the final nail in the …

Yea, there are quite a number of useful nuggets in there. I also liked this bit on complexity from the third post[1] > A second important theme for decentralized systems is a commo…

This is a four part series of posts by former BitTorrent Inc employee Simon Morris. He makes a well reasoned analogy between the P2P revolution and the current Blockchain/Crypto cr…

Given the scale and popularity of DynamoDB and the distributed nature you would think that they could hire multiple teams just to work on improving it, but I guess it isn't as simp…

You think AWS has a reliability problem for their database products? That's news to me. AWS often launches products with limited features, but security, durability and reliability …

It definitely sounds like it sucks from the perspective of an internal AWS developer or SRE, but if the AWS systems are architected such that these internal failures aren't seen by…

I certainly agree that they seem half finished in terms of features and developer experience, but from the point of view of security and data durability they have an excellent repu…

It makes sense in terms of feeling out the market as well. If this version of the service takes off it validates the decision to proceed with a more complex/scalable version and it…

Interesting, how long ago was that? I would be curious to know if the WiredTiger switch ever happened, and what that support relationship looks like not given the contentious relat…

I am pretty frustrated that DB services like Aurora, and now DocumentDB are still limited to last-gen instance types like r4 instead of the latest instances like r5 and t3 which ha…

Saying DynamoDB is built on top of InnoDB is a pretty big oversimplification of a much more complex distributed system[1] and for all we know they could have switched out the low l…

I doubt that they actually built this on top of Postgres. They probably just integrated the WiredTiger[1] storage engine used by Mongo with their Aurora storage subsystem. I am how…

It sounds like it is built on top of the Aurora storage subsystem that is used by both Aurora MySQl and Aurora Postgres[1]. I kinda expected them to build it on top of DynamoDb's b…

Awesome to see Firecracker[1] already bearing fruit: > At re:Invent 2018 we announced Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and m…

Awesome to see Firecracker[1] already bearing fruit: > At re:Invent 2018 we announced Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and m…

Awesome to see Firecracker[1] already bearing fruit: > At re:Invent 2018 we announced Firecracker, an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and m…