Best of Storage — May 2024

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    Stop Using UUIDs in Your Database

    This post discusses the performance issues and storage impact of using UUIDs as keys in a database.

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    The State of Data Engineering 2024

    The 2024 State of Data Engineering report discusses the influence of GenAI on software infrastructure, the expansion of product offerings due to the economic downturn, and the impact of open table formats and their catalogs in the data lake industry. It also highlights the importance of data version control and observability in AI/ML systems.

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    Top 50+ AWS Services Explained in 10 Minutes

    Learn about over 50 different AWS products and services, including AWS services for building robots, options for deploying WordPress sites, and the different database options available.

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    S3 Is Showing Its Age

    S3 is falling behind its competitors in terms of features such as compare-and-swap operation, multi-region buckets, and object appends. These missing features are becoming a bigger problem as new infrastructure relies on object storage as the primary persistence layer. The decision to abandon or embrace S3 depends on the system's use cases and design goals. Preconditions on S3 and a unified S3Express One Zone API would make this decision easier.

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    The Problem With UUIDs

    Using UUIDs as primary keys in databases can have drawbacks in terms of performance and storage utilization. Different versions of UUIDs offer different features and trade-offs. There are also alternative methods for generating unique identifiers.

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