Tweets on AWS tech and building data architectures on AWS | Ex AWS Specialist Solution Architect | Privacy Advocate | Passionate about Space and Human Brain
Apr 22, 2021 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Gamification in products can be done in two ways:
1. Do it because your goal is to somehow “retain” customer
2. Do it to drive a positive impact on your customers and in turn they naturally “remain” an active customer
A thread from my personal experience 👇🧵
#gamification2/ In 2020 I took a personal goal of learning meditation and I eventually picked up a guided meditation app - @calm
The app offered few introductory courses for free. And they had couple of 30 day courses which required a paid subscription
Oct 26, 2020 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
1/ One of the AWS services that always amazes and excites me is @dynamodb . And I also eagerly wait every year for @jeffbarr update on how AWS powered Prime Day that year where I rush to see DynamoDB numbers. A thread on how DynamoDB has evolved and scaled over the years 👇
2/ Let’s talk about scale first. During this year’s Prime Day, Amazon’s DynamoDB usage peaked at 80.1M requests per second making some 16.4T calls during a 66 hour window: amzn.to/2G2VGiG .
Oct 23, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Everyone understands the power of APIs. But what happens when a Database gets an API? #AWS#Redshift got one recently and it opens up plenty of new use cases. A thread 👇
2/ Until September 2020, Redshift required clients to use JDBC/ODBC based connections through the drivers it provided. But that changed when the Data API was introduced. With Data API, you can now fire SQL queries through a simple HTTPS endpoint docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/lates…
