I am SO installing this!

I recently bought my first personal (non corporate) MacBook in 10 years. The joy has returned! It turns out that MacOS does still wake up instantly, integrates seamlessly with all my other Apple devices, and has amazing battery life. Who knew?

Why did it take until I was Today years old to discover how good air tools are?

Whose terrible idea was it to put the whole configuration of LS_COLORS in an environment variable?

AWS just announced Aurora DSQL - a purpose built, postgres-compatible serverless database and take it from me - it's amazing. I've had a few months to play with it (more soon), but it's truly the single most exciting launch I've seen from AWS in a while. You've gotta try it

AWS announces Aurora DSQL with just about everything you’d want in a database!

Aurora DSQL announced, this is the one of the most exciting this re:invent. It is going to be game changing.

For a deep dive on Amazon Aurora DSQL go to Marc Brooker sessions DAT424 and DAT427. In my keynote on Thursday, I'll dive under the hood to look at its architecture and the technology that makes global strong consistency possible. #AWSreInvent2024

Very happy to have been a part of this journey, and looking forward to the road ahead! If you’re at re:Invent, I’ll be talking about Aurora DSQL in the DAT334 chalk talk on Wednesday.

Other takeaway is how AWS seems to have played GenAI just right with Bedrock (even if they have no own high-quality LLMs) This team looked at options and settled on Bedrock. It's secure, they trust AWS, & doesn't train on your data. You can choose your model. I hear so many

LLMs have been transformational to my workflow. I didn't realize how much until my API access was disrupted for a day last week. I missed the pure labor saving stuff the most: - Topping and tailing code with arguments and help messages - Coding ANYTHING that accesses databases

Happy to share that Aurora DSQL is now Generally Available!

DynamoDB and Aurora had a baby -> Aurora DSQL. This is what you need to know. For decades, scaling relational databases meant trade-offs: - Read replicas for reads. - Sharding for writes. - And a pile of glue code to fake global consistency. That’s the reality we live with.

I’m looking for ‘interesting’ silicon wafers for my personal mini-museum. CPU, FPU, GPU, *ROM, *RAM, historic and new. Please DM or reply if you can help! Any RTs highly appreciated, to help spread the word!

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