SpellTales Meets the App Store: What Apple Taught Me About Publishing
Kate Gawron Introduction In the first post, I talked about how I built SpellTales for iOS using React Native, Expo and an AWS backend. This post covers what happened when I took…
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Building SpellTales: What I Thought Would Happen, What Actually Happened
Introduction The SpellTales app started with a very simple idea. After spending most evenings battling with my 9-year-old over her lack of reading and struggles with spelling, I asked her,…
Delayed Read Replicas in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
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.…
Amazon Neptune EXPLAIN Plans: Optimize Gremlin, SPARQL & openCypher Queries for Performance
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 for DynamoDB and Python: A Developer’s Guide
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…
Migrating Oracle from on-prem to RDS Custom
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…
Aurora DSQL Uncovered: The Future of Scalable Databases
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…
Enforcing Google CloudSQL Backups
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…
Finding out folder size of an S3 bucket using the AWS Console
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…
Creating RDS Databases using CloudFormation or CDK? There’s a catch…
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…