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AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)

Amazon Web Services · talk · Watch on YouTube

Databases & storageDistributed systemsCloud, DevOps & reliability

What it is

An AWS re:Invent 2018 session on how DynamoDB was built as a hyper-scale NoSQL database. It discloses underpinnings of the service and how it is run for over 100,000 customers.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it as an authoritative look at DynamoDB internals and as evidence it is a complex distributed system.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Jaso talking about DynamoDB internals”

    DynamoDB internals talk from re:Invent 2018.

    appwiz, 2019-06 · Recommendation · in “Learning to Build Distributed Systems”

  2. “here's a talk you might find interesting from one of the folks who built and ran DDB for a long time”

    Talk by a builder of DynamoDB on its internals.

    mjb, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “DynamoDB 10 years later”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: dynamodb, aws, distributed systems, nosql, reinvent

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