Jul 7

#728: The Duck Talks Back - Using GENAI in Your Work

Simon shares some tips, tricks, and experiences in how Builders can use GENAI in their work to get things done faster, and with better outcomes. Links: Amazon Q Developer CLI: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli Promptz: https://www.promptz.dev/ AWS MCP Servers: https:/ ... Show More

23m 15s

Jun 30

#727: AWS News: AWS Shield Network Security Director, Amazon GuardDuty for EKS, and more

Simon and Jillian take you through all the big security announcements from AWS re:Inforce plus a host of cool new features and price reductions!

34m 48s

Jun 23

#726: Single region, zero excuses: Mastering AWS resilience

Dive into single-region resilience with AWS experts John Formento and Tarik Makota as they debunk common misconceptions and share practical strategies for building robust applications. Learn why multi-AZ isn't enough on its own, discover key AWS services for resilience, and get a ... Show More

45m 33s

Jul 2021

Can Redis be used as a Primary database?

This episode of the backend engineering show is sponsored by my friends at RedisLabs. I’m going to break this video into three sections, we will first define features that qualify a primary database? Then we will see if Redis actually check the boxes of a primary database and fin ... Show More

13m 5s

Dec 2022

MongoDB Internal Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

I’m a big believer that database systems share similar core fundamentals at their storage layer and understanding them allows one to compare different DBMS objectively. For example, How documents are stored in MongoDB is no different from how MySQL or PostgreSQL store rows. Every ... Show More

44m 13s

Sep 2021

S17:E9 - What are some database architectures and their use cases (Kyle Bernhardy)

In this episode, we talk about database architectures and some of their use cases, with Kyle Bernhardy, CTO of HarperDB. Kyle talks about what a database is, different types of databases, and when you might want to use one type of database over another. Show Links DevDiscuss (spo ... Show More

48m 31s

Aug 2022

Memcached Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

Memcached is an in memory cache with one major feature be a transient cache. Memcached has a very simple design. It was originally designed to help with database load by storing the query result in memory to avoid further querying the database. By default it has no authentication ... Show More

50m 29s

Feb 2021

CQRS is probably the cause of the Microservices madness

Reads and Writes don’t have to live in the same database, data model or even the same service. Let us discuss CQRS no separation one service that does read/write partial separation You can keep one service but backend have multiple connections with different users same database f ... Show More

7m 19s

May 2022

Why this query is fast

Welcome to another database question. In this question I created a community poll question and provided some answers. All answers can be correct of course but the question is what is the most efficient? this is what I try to explore in this video and compare how different databas ... Show More

17m 50s

Aug 2021

How Redis efficiently snapshots gigabytes of memory to disk (forking)

I discuss the concept of process forking, copy on write (COW) aka shadowing, and how Redis the in-memory database take advantage of that for asynchronous snapshotting, https://redis.io/topics/persistence

4m 36s

Mar 2021

Hasty Treat - What is the n+1 problem?

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about a common problem you’ll encounter in your development career — the n+1 problem. Hasura - Sponsor With Hasura, you can get a fully managed, production-ready GraphQL API as a service to help you build modern apps faster. You can get sta ... Show More

20m 6s

Oct 2022

Going From Transactional To Analytical And Self-managed To Cloud On One Database With MariaDB

Summary The database market has seen unprecedented activity in recent years, with new options addressing a variety of needs being introduced on a nearly constant basis. Despite that, there are a handful of databases that continue to be adopted due to their proven reliability and ... Show More

52m 4s

#467: [INTRODUCING] Amazon MemoryDB for ...