The Reality of Managing 100+ Managed Databases
summary
Solidgate’s engineers describe building a high-performance fintech platform on AWS SaaS offerings, focusing on scaling from a single RDS Postgres to 100+ RDS/Aurora instances while keeping seamless updates for end users. The talk covers practical interactions with managed databases, the operational trade-offs and hidden maintenance costs encountered, and how those were handled to meet product uptime and performance requirements.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Solidgate infrastructure
- 5:24System scale challenges
- 8:58Cloud choice: RDS PostgreSQL
- 10:23Amazon Aurora pros and cons
- 13:37RDS in AWS nuances
- 21:16Database update strategies
- 27:23AWS Database Migration Service
- 34:08RDS alternatives summary
- 36:38Conclusion and Q&A
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