So we're talking about S3 vs NVMe?
Let me talk a little about Aurora and Aurora DSQL, and how we think about the trade-offs for each of those.
I'll start with DSQL.
In DSQL, S3 is the authoritative, stable, store of 'older' data.
See you on March 17th for "The Hidden Performance Cost of Web Videos" by Vlad Malanin!
Where: Cloudflare's NYC office
Time: Tuesday, March 17th @ 6PM
Vlad Malanin, is the Co-Founder & CTO of SpeedSize.
RSVP: meetup.com/web-performanc…
See you there!
You still can submit a paper (until Jan 26) or presentations (until Feb 16) for International Workshop on #LoadTestingand#Benchmarking (#LTB2026) ltb2026.github.io May 4 or 5 in Florence, Italy. Co-located with the International Conference on #Performance Engineering
I presented 'Performance Engineering: New and Conflicting Trends' slideshare.net/slideshow/perf… at #Performance Advisory Council back in October 2025. Thanks to Bryan Cole and @Tricentis for organizing this great event!
Here is my latest article on the world of databases: cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/20…
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the world!
Performance Hints
Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've recently published a version of it externally.
We'd love any feedback you might have!
Read the full doc at: abseil.io/fast/hints.html
Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 1/5: @ceckoslab shares that BasicRUM (open-source Real User Monitoring tool) will have its source code released Q1 2026. Self-hosted, privacy-friendly, with AI-powered insights & dashboards to spot performance issues
calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/open-sour…
Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 2/5: @KeerthanaK17 on making friends with Chrome DevTools and transforming it into a powerful tool for deep understanding, debugging, and improving of real-world web performance
calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/chrome-de…