THE VIDEO SHELF · dynamodb internals
AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
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 HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as an authoritative look at DynamoDB internals and as evidence it is a complex distributed system.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Amazon Web Services
- Topic
- dynamodb internals
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2022
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Here are a couple videos from reInvent 2018: Jaso talking about DynamoDB internals [VIDEO] Marc talking about Lambda internals [LINK]
appwiz on Hacker News · 2019-06
In Learning to Build Distributed SystemsWe don't have a paper on DynamoDB's internals (yet?), but here's a talk you might find interesting from one of the folks who built and ran DDB for a long time: [VIDEO] And Doug Terry talking through the details of how DynamoDB's transaction protocol works: …
mjb on Hacker News · 2022-01
In DynamoDB 10 years later
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