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Marcilio Mendonca

Author: Marcilio Mendonca

Marcilio Mendonca is a Sr. Solutions Developer in the Solution Prototyping Team at Amazon Web Services. In the past years, he has been helping AWS customers to design, build and deploy modern applications on AWS leveraging VMs, containers, and Serverless architectures. Prior to joining AWS, Marcilio was a Software Development Engineer with Amazon. He also holds a PhD in Computer Science. You can find him on twitter at @marciliomendonc.

Use Python SQLAlchemy ORM to interact with an Amazon Aurora database from a serverless application

As organizations work to modernize their traditional applications to an event-driven, serverless model, a question that comes up frequently is how the object-relational mapping (ORM) layer should be managed. Packaging it with AWS Lambda functions increases its size and adds a cognitive burden on the development team to track. In addition, many organizations have requirements […]

Use the Data API to interact with an Amazon Aurora Serverless MySQL database

Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, automatically scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora (MySQL-compatible edition). The database automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity based on your application’s needs. It enables you to run your database in the cloud without managing any database instances. It’s a simple, cost-effective option for infrequent, intermittent, or unpredictable workloads. Recently, AWS announced […]