This paper from 2008 proposes a shared-disk design over Amazon S3 for cloud-native databases, separating storage from compute. Clients write redo logs to Amazon SQS instead of directly to S3 to hide latency. The paper presents a blueprint for serverless databases before the term existed... read more  

Amazon RDS costs are not fixed - they vary based on configuration and usage. Making informed configuration and governance decisions is key to optimizing costs. Graviton instances offer better price-performance for common databases, while storage costs can be reduced by decoupling performance from ca.. read more  

NGINX ships an open-sourceAgentic ObservabilityJS module. It parsesMCPtraffic and extracts tool names, error statuses, and client/server identities. The module uses nativeOpenTelemetryto export spans. A Docker Compose reference wires upOTel collector,Prometheus, andGrafanafor realtime throughput, la.. read more  

Amazon EMR Serverless allows users to run big data analytics frameworks without managing clusters, integrating with various AWS services for a comprehensive solution. The top 10 best practices for optimizing EMR Serverless workloads focus on performance, cost, and scalability, including consideratio.. read more  

This post discusses the impact of AI on the role of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) by drawing parallels to historical research on automation. It highlights the risk of deskilling and never-skilling for SREs who heavily rely on AI tools for incident response. The post also suggests potential appro.. read more  

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