Nick Smit
nickste.bsky.social
Nick Smit
@nickste.bsky.social
Product, growth, startups. Current PM for Amazon EventBridge @awscloud Prev. @kickstarter & Co-founder @Huzza_Live. Enabling creativity. Opinions my own.
The team working on this did incredible work to seamlessly reduce latency for over a million customers. And they're just getting started.

If the improved Event Bus latency has helped you or your team in a particular use case, we'd love to hear from you!
May 19, 2023 at 6:21 PM
But in this case, we've open-sourced our Ruler library, so you can see the improvements for yourself here: https://github.com/aws/event-ruler/pull/88
May 19, 2023 at 6:20 PM
One of the things I love about AWS is that the massive scale our services operate at means that we see so many different use cases. We use those insights to improve our services for *everyone*. Sometimes those improvements aren't immediately visible to our customers...
May 19, 2023 at 6:20 PM
Part of these improvements came from us switching to Kinesis enhanced fan-out and KCL 2.0, but we also made some big performance improvements to the Ruler library that reduced latency for complex rules by 50ms at p99, and 400ms at p99.9.
May 19, 2023 at 6:20 PM
The first part is true. The second part is half true. Nik’s AppSec bar is now so high that really he just needs to convince himself. If he manages to do that, the rest is easy.
May 9, 2023 at 4:29 AM
Ugh, I can’t believe my first skeet will forever be me praising @nikpin.ski 🤦‍♂️. I will definitely regret this.
May 8, 2023 at 11:07 PM