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AWS RDS

Delayed Read Replicas in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Kate Gawron August 26, 2025 No Comments

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL recently introduced delayed read replicas, a long-awaited feature that provides an additional layer of protection against logical errors while still offering the traditional benefits of replication.…

AWS Neptune

Amazon Neptune EXPLAIN Plans: Optimize Gremlin, SPARQL & openCypher Queries for Performance

Kate Gawron May 12, 2025 No Comments

When working with Amazon Neptune, performance tuning can often feel like navigating a dark cave without a flashlight. Queries might slow down unexpectedly, or your Gremlin traversal that worked on…

AWS CDK Databases DynamoDB

AWS CDK for DynamoDB and Python: A Developer’s Guide

Kate Gawron May 6, 2025 No Comments

Manual AWS Console setups don’t scale. If you’re deploying infrastructure repeatedly, across environments, or as part of a CI/CD pipeline, you want Infrastructure as Code (IaC). That’s where AWS CDK…

AWS Databases Oracle RDS

Migrating Oracle from on-prem to RDS Custom

Kate Gawron January 9, 2025 No Comments

Time to go a bit old school today! I’ve not blogged about Oracle and on-prem to cloud migrations in a long time, but that doesn’t mean they are continuing, at…

AWS Databases RDS

Aurora DSQL Uncovered: The Future of Scalable Databases

Kate Gawron December 10, 2024 No Comments

Amazon Aurora DSQL (Distributed SQL) introduces a new approach to relational databases, leveraging distributed SQL architecture to deliver high scalability, robust availability, and seamless support for distributed transactions. Adopting Aurora…

Cloud SQL Databases GCP

Enforcing Google CloudSQL Backups

Kate Gawron September 19, 2024 No Comments

Have you ever experienced that heart-stopping moment when you realize you’ve accidentally deleted important data from your database or messily dropped your production system instead of the dev environment? And…

AWS

Finding out folder size of an S3 bucket using the AWS Console

Kate Gawron June 21, 2022 No Comments

So often in life we find a really easy solution to something much later than would be ideal. Same happened today with trying to clear out an S3 bucket that…

AWS CDK Oracle RDS

Creating RDS Databases using CloudFormation or CDK? There’s a catch…

Kate Gawron June 16, 2022 2 Comments

So you’ve decided to have some control and governance over the provisioning of RDS database in your accounts. The days of the Wild West are OVER! Security rules are going…

Recent Posts

  • Delayed Read Replicas in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
  • Amazon Neptune EXPLAIN Plans: Optimize Gremlin, SPARQL & openCypher Queries for Performance
  • AWS CDK for DynamoDB and Python: A Developer’s Guide
  • Migrating Oracle from on-prem to RDS Custom
  • Aurora DSQL Uncovered: The Future of Scalable Databases

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AWS RDS

Delayed Read Replicas in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

AWS Neptune

Amazon Neptune EXPLAIN Plans: Optimize Gremlin, SPARQL & openCypher Queries for Performance

AWS CDK Databases DynamoDB

AWS CDK for DynamoDB and Python: A Developer’s Guide

AWS Databases Oracle RDS

Migrating Oracle from on-prem to RDS Custom

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