Effective Container Images (Part 1)

Show Details Jon Christensen and Chris Hickman of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache continue their discussion on the birth of NoSQL and DynamoDB. They examine DynamoDB’s architecture and popularity as a solution for Internet-scale databases.  Some of the highlights of the show include: Cha…

Show Details What’s under the hood of Amazon’s DynamoDB? Jon Christensen and Chris Hickman of Kelsus continue their discussion on DynamoDB, specifically about it’s architecture and components. They utilize a presentation from re:Invent titled, Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How we built a hyper-sc…

Show Details Jon Christensen and Chris Hickman of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache conclude their series on the birth of NoSQL and DynamoDB. They compare the NoSQL database, Leviathan, created by Chris’s startup in the late 1990s to today’s DynamoDB. A lot of things haven’t changed, even tho…

In this episode, we cover the following topics: A common feature for web apps is image upload. And we all know the "best practices" for how to build this feature. But getting it right can be tricky. We start off by discussing the problem space, and what we want to solve. A key goal is to have a …