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Choosing between MongoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, and Google Cloud Firestore is one of the most common architectural decisions when building modern cloud-native applications. While all three are categorised as “document databases”, they are fundamentally different systems with distinct design philosophies, strengths, and trade-offs. On the surface, they all store semi-structured data Continue Reading
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 (Cloud Development Kit) comes in—and using Python makes it accessible to a broad base of developers. In particular, we can Continue Reading
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 pace, in the background. Today we’ll be looking at how to migrate an Oracle database from on-premises or self-hosted in Continue Reading
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 DSQL requires more than excitement (and I am a bit excited; it may come across in this blog) — it calls for Continue Reading
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 to add to the nightmare, you discover that backups weren’t turned on? It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar for Continue Reading
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 to be enforced, same as backup policies. Time to automate this stuff and run it all through Service Catalog. YES!!!! Continue Reading
