nw-fcx

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1. 1.▲
   by nw-fcx 9y ago

   Some domain data that was way too coarse, but seemed like the right thing to query by.
2. 2.▲
   by nw-fcx 9y ago

   I am really surprised by this, I was convinced that the table-wide capacity is re-distributed evenly across shards. Looks like you're entirely correct: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/develope
3. 3.▲
   by nw-fcx 9y ago

   For my very small-data use case I would be very happy if I could use DynamoDB as a persistent data store because the operational aspect is like ten lines of Terraform
4. 4.▲
   by nw-fcx 9y ago

   I've been able to improve my partitioning by adding a random suffix from a small set to the key for the writes, and then just trying all suffixes for the reads. Because my work load was relatively write-heavy (used at least ~10x more w