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Wait... I'm listening to a podcast with @jeremy_daly and @alexbdebrie and my name gets mentioned... regarding RDBMS... MY EARS ARE RINGING 🤣
Totally agree on that there are issues of evolving the data model within DynamoDB using serverless and changing access patterns. Still have a preference to that over RDBMS.
Oh!!! This is the podcast!!!

serverlesschats.com/1
On the point of using smaller tables, then... make small components (maybe even call them microservices!) and have multiple sets of smaller tables. I'm agreeing with both @jeremy_daly and @alexbdebrie
So... I agree that people should jump into serverless and try it... *but* the number of times I've seen simple mistakes that could have been avoided...
Problem is when people try to build too much first off... building small things first is fine!
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You know? I go to meetups that charge £10 for food and bits and pieces that get 50 people and nobody minds

This is a full blown single day, single track conference, with international speakers on one of the hot topics of the day

FOR THIRTY FIVE POUNDS

#ServerlessDays
£35 is not that different from what companies spend a month on a very basic SaaS product for their business

£35 is an average meal and a couple of drinks at an ok restaurant (ish) in London (debatable of course)

£35 is less than the shirt of your favourite sports team
£35 is cheaper than a return from Milton Keynes to London on the train

£35 is cheaper than a lot of mobile/cell contracts per month

£35 is cheaper than a 3rd generation Echo Dot
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Paul Johnston
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Sipping my *oat milk latte* #ClimateCrisis

bustle.com/p/is-oat-milk-…

(also... Bustle is #serverless so it's on-demand compute is likely more environmentally friendly too aws.amazon.com/solutions/case…)

#ClimateCrisis #nailedIt
One thing though, personal changes aren't going to make a big difference. Systemic and governmental changes are.

Big system change?

If you work in tech, Sustainable Servers - Data Centres are as bad as aviation for carbon emissions

infoq.com/presentations/…
Switch your servers to a provider that uses renewable (or at least sustainable) energy

GCP: Almost all renewables, and offsets the rest
Azure: 60% renewables and offsets the rest
AWS regions: Ireland, Frankfurt, Montreal and Oregon are "sustainable"
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Paul Johnston
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Increasingly thinking that the reason that I go on and on about serverless best practices and principles is that I don't care about technology that much, but culture.

Because instilling the right culture is much more likely to produce great tech.
I'm not averse to coding up solutions where necessary.

It's simply that with the proliferation of cloud based services, and solutions that you can get off the shelf...

... why would you?

Unless you had a specific business critical reason, then you are wasting time and money.
And understanding the technologies that you have available to you is a key part of utilising them to your advantage.

So doing that due diligence is key as well. Assuming that you understand it because it looks like something else is laziness.

Know your tools!
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