2022 - Sebastian Gębski - The Mother of All Databases

The Mother of All Databases - pretty much everyone has encountered her. Monumental, majestic, nearly immovable - system's main relational database that stores the most vital data and serves all the most crucial app functionalities. It started with just few, nearly empty tables, but over the time it has got overgrown with hundreds of relations and filled with tens of millions of records. What's even worse - it became a source of many performance concerns and a nest of coupling, slowing down the development and causing cascading failures.

Dismantling The Mother of All Databases ain't a trivial task - it requires time and discipline, but you can simplify that task by using appropriate tools and techniques. During this webinar, I'll present how AWS can help with that, e.g.: how to deal with performance issues by proxying queries to read replicas and write-forwarding, or how to crumble complex databases with different methods of selective replication. For dessert: some curiosities.