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Fast and Secure Cloud Delivery in Regulated Industries

I've been working on AWS infrastructure platform teams for more than five years now. A general problem I keep coming back to is how to balance security, freedom, and productivity while enabling teams

Mob Programming an Enigma Machine: A Coding Dojo Experiment

Last night, I went to a Coding Dojo meetup event on Meetup.com, Programming Dojo Utrecht meetup, hosted by Rentman! They advertised that we were going to do something called "mob programming" in a Doj

Unraveling Aurora DSQL Pricing

Aurora DSQL has been in general availability, but it is still a new service and there are many unknowns about it. The pricing model is also new and different from other AWS services, so I wanted to ex

Can You Use Amazon S3 as a Database (storage backend)?

I wrote this piece as an answer initially in 2024 on Stackoverflow for a user wondering if they can use Wasabi(an S3 compatible service without request fees) as a key-value distributed database but al