The good parts of AWS with Daniel Vassallo

Software Sessions

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

• Personal Site
• @dvassallo

Other Links

• The Good Parts of AWS
• Userbase
• Only Intrinsic Motivation Lasts