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

What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

• 1 people recommended it
• 1 different months
• 0 strong recommendations
• first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

1. “The only requirement is a good table design”

   Shows how good table design gives relational-style modeling on NoSQL.

   andriosr, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: An open-source financial ledger API written in Clojure”

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