> Where would someone even start when designing a system that can handle nearly 100 million requests per second? In the case of DynamoDB, it's just a streak of

> Where would someone even start when designing a system that can handle nearly 100 million requests per second? In the case of DynamoDB, it's just a streak of use-case-appropriate sharding techniques, and a whole lot of scalability elsewhere :P I would imagine a good chunk of the DynamoDB team had to work on the requirements side of engineering, or at the very least it took a lot of research into the matter of how DynamoDB would be used.