The good parts of AWS with Daniel Vassallo

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Daniel is the co-author of the book "The Good Parts of AWS" and previously worked at AWS on the CloudWatch team. He left last year after over 8 years at Amazon to work on his own projects.

He's currently working on an end-to-end encrypted user database SaaS called Userbase. Daniel is also openly sharing his experiences building an audience, writing a book, and building Userbase on twitter.

We talk about:

Why AWS has so many services
His default AWS stack and how he chose it (Dynamo, SQS, S3 and EC2)
Why he uses EC2 over ECS or EBS
Why services like RDS and ElastiCache aren't in his book
The difference between SQS and Kinesis
Why AWS will probably never build a Heroku-like service
The future of AWS

Daniel Vassallo

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