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Rehan van der Merwe

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Rehan van der Merwe's personal blog at rehanvdm.com covers programming and systems. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Writing 1M records in 60 seconds with AWS DynamoDB and a single Lambda”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.

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8mentions?
4HN people?
2019–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2019

I make things go fast with AWS and Serverless

Most-linked posts?

  1. Writing 1M records in 60 seconds with AWS DynamoDB and a single Lambda
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted AWS: Refactor a distributed monolith to microservices with Event Bridge and BASE as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted AWS Serverless: you might not need third party monitoring as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Writing 1M records in 60 seconds with AWS DynamoDB and a single Lambda as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted AWS IoT Coffee Monitor, notifying via push notification if your coffee gets cold as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted DynamoDB Importer as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Should you use a Lambda Monolith, a.k.a. Lambdalith, for your API? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted LRU cache fallback/first strategy as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted 3 ways to Autoscale AWS using Elastic Beanstalk, Fargate and Lambda behind ELB as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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