AWS Database Blog
Author: Darin Briskman
Automated query caching into Amazon ElastiCache for Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift
This is a guest blog post by Erik Brandsberg, CTO at Heimdall Data, in partnership with AWS Technical Evangelist Darin Briskman. Heimdall Data is an AWS Advanced Technology partner who in their own words “offers a database proxy on the AWS Marketplace that supports SQL query caching into Amazon ElastiCache for Redis without code changes. […]
Testing Automatic Failover to a Read Replica on Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Darin Briskman is a developer evangelist at Amazon Web Services. You can reach him @briskmad “Trust, but verify.” — U. S. President Ronald Reagan, 1987 In this comment, President Reagan quoted a Russian proverb to describe his philosophy for nuclear disarmament treaties. But the same philosophy also applies well to DevOps! Amazon ElastiCache for Redis […]
Secure your OpenSearch Development Domain using Amazon WorkSpaces
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Darin Briskman (@briskmad) is a technical evangelist at Amazon Web Services. So you’re working with Amazon Elasticsearch Service and you’re setting up a non-production domain, using it for a development, sandbox, test, or staging environment. (If you’re new to Elasticsearch, […]
ElastiCache for Redis Backup and Restore with Cluster Resizing
Clusters provide a lot of capabilities in Amazon ElastiCache for Redis. Using autosharding to distribute data across the shards of a cluster enables high performance (over 4.5m writes/sec and 20m reads/sec, with each operation typically under 500µs) and high capacity (up to 3.5TiB of data) with high reliability and with recovery of failed nodes usually […]
Caching Hudl’s News Feed with Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Darin Briskman (@briskmad) is a developer evangelist for Amazon Web Services. We hope you enjoy this guest post from Joel Hensley, Engineering Director for the Community Tribe at Hudl, a leading software company that is revolutionizing the way coaches and athletes prepare for and stay ahead of the competition. You can reach Joel @fusbal. Hudl […]
Creating a Simple Autocompletion Service with Redis: Part One of Two
Darin Briskman (@briskmad) is a developer evangelist for Amazon Web Services. So you’ve figured out how to use a cool framework to make a great-looking web form. You’ve made it super-easy for people to understand each field and how to fill it out. But there is still a lot of stuff to type. How can […]