Amazon’s DynamoDB — 10 years later
Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the 'never-ending journey' to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more performant.
Issue #258 · January 31, 2022
DynamoDB: 10 years later
“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless”
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Mastering Regular Expressions
by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL.If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage.