{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Last Week In AWS Podcast","title":"Whiteboard Confessional: Route 53 DB","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":822,"description":"Join me as I launch a new series called Whiteboard Confessional that explores how whiteboard architecture diagrams might look pretty but rarely work as designed in production. To kick off the series, we’re taking a look at everyone’s favorite database, AWS Route 53, while touching upon a number of topics, including what data centers used to look like, the emergence of virtualization and the impact it had, configuration management databases and how they differ from configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet, why using DNS as a configuration management database is inherently an awful idea, how there’s almost always a better solution than whatever you built in your own isolated environment, how just because someone built something doesn’t mean they knew what they were doing, and more.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PMIkgW48sHRopAuMhIYzsjzhK0RhchBCtpHSuJjoizc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MDRk/OGFjYTIxMWE1MjQy/YWRkZDhiMDJmMzMy/MDQyMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}