The Cloud is Slower Than Your Local Machine

An airhacks.fm conversation with Goran Opacic (@goranopacic) about: what is a database, everything is a database, S3 queries with Athena, glue crawler on S3, Cloudflare Quiche, Kafka vs. Kinesis, proprietary managed AWS services, different writing and reading paths, openJDK CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint), Oracle’s Aurora JVM, Amazon Aurora Serverless, the cloud is slower than your local machine, scaling is about limits, AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator), CQRS is a cloud-native pattern, CDC on premise and in the cloud Goran Opacic on twitter: @goranopacic