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>This will not work at scale in DynamoDb. I don't think we're getting the whole story from the author. I'm not the biggest fan of Dynamo either for reasons I w
by kevan 9y ago
>This will not work at scale in DynamoDb.
I don't think we're getting the whole story from the author. I'm not the biggest fan of Dynamo either for reasons I won't get into here, but this type of workload is exactly what Dynamo was built for: serving a website with millions of customers.
Disclaimer: I work at Amazon, my views are my own.
- thinkloop 9y agoSo what about the issue of requiring heavy over-provisioning for common usage patterns, like a customer being logged in causing temporary bursts of access on specific keys?
- mrep 9y agoAka, the status quo before AWS allowed you to dynamically scale certain parts of your infrastructure. It's not perfect for all parts of your stack, but do you have a better alternative for databases?
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]