Effective Container Images (Part 1)

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…

In this episode, we cover the following topics: We discuss the features and limitations of serving files directly from S3. We then talk about how CloudFront can address many of S3's limitations. In particular, CloudFront is performant, inexpensive and allows us to use custom CNAMEs with TLS encr…

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 …