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Closing off tabs: Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story

At re:Invent we announced Aurora DSQL, and since then I’ve had many conversations with builders about what this means for database engineering. What’s particularly interesting isn’t just the technology itself, but the journey that got us here. I’ve been wanting to dive deeper into this story, to share not just the what, but the how and why behind DSQL’s development. Then, a few weeks ago, at our internal developer conference — DevCon — I watched a talk from two of our senior principal engineers (PEs) on building DSQL (a project that started 100% in JVM and finished 100% Rust). After the presentation, I asked Niko Matsakis and Marc Bowes if they’d be willing to work with me to turn their insights into a deeper exploration of DSQL’s development. They not only agreed, but offered to help explain some of the more technically complex parts of the story.