May 27, 2025 • 3404 wordsAt 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 se...