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AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)

AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1) on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2020–2022.

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An AWS re:Invent 2019 session for advanced DynamoDB users on design patterns used by large customers, including Amazon retail. It covers GSI sharding, index overloading, graph processing, composite keys and transactional workflows.

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Recommended as Rick Houlihan's definitive talk on modeling relational-style data in DynamoDB.

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“This is a great presentation about this”
— andriosr, Sep 2020, in “Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure”

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andriosrSep 2020Recommends

I wrote a piece that touches a bit on the why: [link] But in a nutshell: availability and scalability. Yes you can achieve this with relational DBs, but it will be quite complex, while No-SQL gives it by design. All while ensuring all the goodness of relational data modeling, consistency and queries. The only requirement is a good table design: ▶ this video

in “Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure” · View on HN

andriosrSep 2020Recommends

Interesting question. No-SQL doesn't mean non-relational. DynamoDB is a relational database. It's up to you on how you design the table to accommodate your relations. This is a great presentation about this: ▶ this video

in “Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure” · View on HN

belterJan 2022Cites it

You never heard of Rick Houlihan? He is the 90% of DynamoDB Evangelism... At the same time you are able to this internal lookups? Do you work with DynamoDB? AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401) [link] AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1) ▶ this video AWS re:Invent 2020: Amazon DynamoDB advanced design patterns – Part 1 [link] AWS re:Invent 2020: Amazon DynamoDB advanced design patterns – Part 2 [link] AWS re:Invent 2021 - DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns [link] Amazon DynamoDB | Office Hours with Rick Houlihan: Breaking down the design process for NoSQL applications [link]

in “DynamoDB 10 years later” · View on HN

abd12Apr 2020Cites it

Rick has had the most-watched re:Invent talk the last three years. Here are the links for each: - 2019: ▶ this video - 2018: [link] - 2017: [link] Additional DynamoDB links here: [link]

in “Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB” · View on HN

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Databases & storageCloud, DevOps & reliabilitydynamodbnosqlawssingle-table designsecondary indexes