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Out of curiosity have you been building with the serverless framework? I'm curious what drives people to use dynamodb in particular

• akira2501 3y ago
  No, I really don't like any of the serverless or amplify type of frameworks that AWS produces. What I needed was a distributed store for managing a large number of small configuration "files" and other state "links" across the infrastructure I built. In particular, I needed the ability for a write conflicts to be detected and managed immediately and for consistent reads to be available in some cases. Looking at the size of data and number of transactions, DynamoDB on a per-request model was going to be significantly cheaper and easier than standing up a bunch of DB instances or other "fixed" infrastructure. The ultimate model was to actually implement something like a POSIX filesystem on top of the "nosql" layer. In practice, I've been really happy with that decision, and it makes working on the code that interacts with this system very familiar and easy to understand. It's even got symlinks, acls, and automatically expiring advisory locks.