Amazon Aurora provides high performance, availability & compatibility at 1/10th the cost of commercial databases. With Aurora I/O-optimized, customers can predict and reduce I/O costs by up to 90% for demanding workloads such as e-commerce & payment processing. It offers an improved price-performanc..

Low-cost SSDs may seem like a smart purchase, but one engineer found out that the tradeoff in price ultimately led to poor performance. Even though they function well regarding read performance, these inexpensive drives had atrocious write performance, demonstrating that it may be wiser to buy an ex..

Graceful shutdown is essential for production systems to avoid data loss. In case of abrupt shut down of a service, the clients would get an error and could lose data. A hook function must be set to shut it down gracefully and a proper sequence of shutting down the different components of a system m..