AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)

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sass_muffin · 2022-08 · Strong recommendation

This is the video I recommend to others when working with dynamodb. The video is by Rick Houlihan about dynamodb modeling. In my experience most developers that complain about dynamodb don't fully understand it. [VIDEO]

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mabbo · 2022-07 · Strong recommendation

Rick Houlihan did a talk a few years ago about designing the data later for an application using dynamodb. The most common reaction I get from people I show it to- most of them Amazon SDEs who operate services that use Dynamodb- is "Holy shit what is this wizardry?!" [VIDEO] One of the biggest mistakes people make with dynamo is thinking that it's just a relational database with no relations. It's not. It's an incredible system, but it requires a lot of deep knowledge to get the full benefits, and it requires you, often, to design your data layer very well up-front. I actually don't recommend using it for a system that hasn't mostly stabilized in design. But when used right, it's an incredibly performant beast of a data store.

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ronjouch · 2022-07 · Strong recommendation

For explicitness & searchability, commenting with the title of this talk, which is indeed excellent , not limited to DynamoDB, and which was kind of a revelation after years of using DynamoDB suboptimally: Rick Houlihan - AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401) , [VIDEO] It should be watched along with reading the associated doc: [LINK]

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