Look Mom No Hands! Moving from a managed relational database to a serverless one
12:30/13:10
A relational database is often a bottleneck, hard to scale, harder to manage: from AWS to Google Cloud, the major cloud providers offer different options to run a MySQL or a MySQL compatible database on the cloud. You can spin up virtual machines and configure your own cluster or rely on managed services, but the new trend is serverless databases that offer both traditional interfaces and HTTP API access. Can they be the future? Is Amazon Aurora Serverless really serverless?
Language: English
Level: Intermediate
Renato Losio
Principal Cloud Architect - Funambol
Renato is the Principal Cloud Architect at Funambol and an AWS Data Hero. He has over 15 years of experience as a software engineer, tech lead, and cloud architect across Italy, the UK, Portugal, and Germany. His main working interests include location-based services, relational databases on the cloud, and anything related to storage. He has been working with AWS technologies since 2011, and holds 7 AWS certifications (including the Database Specialty). Passionate about knowledge sharing, Renato is an editor at InfoQ and enjoys speaking at international events.
