In this episode, I spoke with Sandro Volpicella, who is a platform lead at Hashnode, a fully serverless blogging platform. He is also the co-author of AWS Fundamentals (https://awsfundamentals.com).

We explored Hashnode's architecture and went deep into its caching strategy, which is a crucial ingredient of a scalable and performant blogging platform.

Links from the episode:

Hashnode's overall architecture
AWS Fundamentals
CloudWatch Book
Stellate
Upstash
How Hashnode implements the user feed
OctoLense
ServerlessQ
Choosing a database for serverless applications

You can find Sandro on X as @sandro_vol

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