PollGab

Earlier this week, I wrote about how we designed the database for PollGab.com. Because we went with AWS DynamoDB for the database storage and AWS Lambda for the processing work, costs are really, really low: That is not a typo: that’s $1.85 USD. Richie puts the business logic in functions, and those functions run in AWS…

In the last post, I talked about how Richie and I sketched out the goals of PollGab.com, the site where you can post questions for other folks to answer during their live streams. I challenged you to decide: What data needs to be stored to make all this work? What database or persistence layer should…

Years ago when we did online presentations or live Office Hours webcasts, attendees would type their questions into the “Questions” section of whatever webcast platform we were using – WebEx, GoToWebinar, Zoom. This sucked because: People would put questions all over the place (Questions, Chat, email, etc) It was hard to keep track of which…