Goran Opacic

AWS Community Day Istanbul kicks off with @serhatcan.bsky.social and Emrah Samdan on stage. 6th edition. Join me today at 1:30pm for AWS Aurora DSQL session

"🏆 100 Most Watched Talks Of 2024"

That's a really great list of tech talks to watch. Special kudos to @royvanrijn.com for hitting the Top 10 with his session about the One Billion Row Challenge at GOTO!

www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-w...

ha hahaha haha hahahaha!

I can't help feeling a "game-changing" technology that's going to "transform" the way we work wouldn't need to be sneaked into products without the user's consent.

All I see is posts asking "How do I switch this f**king thing off?"

Copilot's the U2 album nobody asked for, except it's not free.

bloody hell ;) this is good

how to fix basketball 🏀? switch 2 and 3 point zones! everything above current 3-point line should be 2-points. everything inside is a 3 point shot. it is harder to get inside than to make shots from half court these days ⛹🏼‍♀️

there must be something we don’t know

Data Landing Zone The Data Landing Zone (DLZ) is a CDK Construct designed to create a landing zone tailored for supporting and enabling AI, data-driven, data mesh, and cloud projects.

✨ INTRODUCING ✨ AWS Data Landing Zone (DLZ). The DLZ is a CDK construct designed to accelerate AI and data-related projects. It provides an opinionated Landing Zone, laying the foundation for a multi-account AWS strategy, so you can focus on delivering applications. 🧵

https://datalandingzone.com/

And that’s a wrap! | Amazon Web Services After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to ...

After 20 years as lead blogger on the #AWS News Blog, I am going to return to my builder roots and spend more time with fewer AWS services. Here's my announcement:

And that's a wrap! - aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/an...

thank God I don’t have the latest iphone

When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum

“We are at a moment in the history of the web in which the link itself – the countless connections made by website creators, the endless tapestry of ideas woven together throughout the web – is in danger of going extinct.”

aeon.co/essays/when-...

My second blog post on Aurora DSQL, with a deep dive on how reads work: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

Imagine entering this secure facility with an usb stick. You can be the person who destroyed the net.

There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0 In this article, Charity Majors goes over the simple, technical distinction between observability 1.0 and observability 2.0.

A lot of folks are starting to talk about o11y 2.0 and how it's different -- dev vs ops, pillars vs log events, etc. Which is cool But there is only ONE core distinction between 1.0 and 2.0; everything else is a consequence.

http://dlvr.it/TGVl0h

this is the AI I was looking for

Revisiting the Outbox Pattern Comparing the outbox pattern to alternatives like “listen-to-yourself” and 2-phase commit (2PC) transactions. What’s the best choice for data exchange flows between microservices?

something is wrong with that link. this is the correct one www.decodable.co/blog/revisit...

ok. this is interesting. when can we expect a blog post?

this pricing sucks. one more thing to think about. totally anti-serverless!

Replicate changes from databases to Apache Iceberg tables using Amazon Data Firehose (in preview) | Amazon Web Services Amazon Data Firehose introduces a new capability that captures database changes and streams updates to a data lake or warehouse, supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB, with aut...

excellent! replicate mysql/postgres to aws s3 and iceberg files aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/re...

feeling bad about the guy who invented this blue power on off mechanism that enabled macs in the cloud. apple being assholes once again. it is not by mistake, it is literally a brainf*ck like that notch thing we have to watch everyday

just testing if there is any life over here:)

AI sucks on bluesky too