AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)

Why HN readers recommended it

The go-to recommendation for learning DynamoDB data modeling, with many saying it made access-pattern-driven design click.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Amazon Web Services

Topic

dynamodb data modeling

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

12

HN mentions in dataset

16

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• If you go single table you can use filtered indexes if your database supports it to speed up queries instead of having to do a row by row search with a where clause. Personally this seems like a job for DynamoDB but that’s a whole …

• AWS re:invent 2018 talks: [VIDEO] He has a sequence of 2-3 great talks on DynamoDB, the history of relational databases and the rise of access-pattern oriented db design.

• I've seen this done for new projects, and it works really well. If your data access patterns are truly relational (varied lookup paths) then it is probably not the right tool, but many apps can be modeled in a way that DDB handles well. Highly …