Skills:
Everything is run on AWS - nothing self-hosted
Restful API
Moving from Postgres to DynamoDB for some of their financial operations (but not everything)
Ideally, he wants the architecture to be created as serverless and using DynamoDB as opposed to SQL
Aurera has scalability issues. Aurera today is about 75% of their AWS costs. It’s become a bottleneck so they are looking to segregate various pieces of the data model together with microservices that can be done siding DynamoDB because of its impressive performance
Application is written PHP, hosted on EC2
Microservices - 100% serverless, Lambda, SQS
Programming: Node.js with Typescript
Deploys using Cloudformation, not using Terraform