Snapshot Isolation vs Serializability

DSQL Vignette: Wait! Isn’t That Impossible? MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']]} }; Laws of physics are real. In today’s post, I’m going to look at how Aurora DSQL is designed for availability, and how we work within the constraints of the laws of physics. If you’d like to learn more about the product first, check...

DSQL Vignette: Transactions and Durability MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']]} }; The hard half of a database system? In today’s post, I’m going to look at the other half of what’s under the covers of Aurora DSQL, our new scalable, active-active, SQL database. If you’d like to learn more about the product first,...

DSQL Vignette: Reads and Compute MathJax = { tex: {inlineMath: [['$', '$'], ['\\(', '\\)']]} }; The easy half of a database system? In today’s post, I’m going to look at half of what’s under the covers of Aurora DSQL, our new scalable, active-active, SQL database. If you’d like to learn more about the product first, check out the official...

DSQL Vignette: Aurora DSQL, and A Personal Story It's happening. In this morning’s re:Invent keynote, Matt Garman announced Aurora DSQL. We’re all excited, and some extremely excited, to have this preview release in customers’ hands. Over the next few days, I’m going to be writing a few posts about what DSQL is, how it works, and how to make the...

Ten Years of AWS Lambda Everything starts somewhere. Today, Werner Vogels shared his annotated version of the original AWS Lambda PRFAQ. This is a great inside look into how product development happens at AWS - the real working backwards process in action. This was, in some ways, the start of serverless computing2. Tim Wagner, Ajay Nair, and...