The good parts of AWS with Daniel Vassallo
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English - February 12, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow To Education Technology software development software engineering Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Daniel is the co-author of the book "The Good Parts of AWS" and previously worked at AWS on the CloudWatch team. He left last year after over 8 years at Amazon to work on his own projects.
He's currently working on an end-to-end encrypted user database SaaS called Userbase. Daniel is also openly sharing his experiences building an audience, writing a book, and building Userbase on twitter.
We talk about:
Why AWS has so many servicesHis default AWS stack and how he chose it (Dynamo, SQS, S3 and EC2)Why he uses EC2 over ECS or EBSWhy services like RDS and ElastiCache aren't in his bookThe difference between SQS and KinesisWhy AWS will probably never build a Heroku-like serviceThe future of AWS
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