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

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What it is

Rick Houlihan's AWS re:Invent 2018 deep dive on advanced DynamoDB design patterns. It covers index overloading, GSI sharding, composite keys, graph processing and transactions.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 12 people recommended it
  • 9 different months
  • 7 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “amazing talk at reinvent that is given almost every year on creating a DynamoDB schema”

    Talk on creating a DynamoDB schema around access patterns

    gigatexal, 2019-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Designing database: split into different tables or group them together?”

  2. “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.”

    Talks on DynamoDB, relational history, and access-pattern oriented design

    tmsh, 2019-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Resources for Learning about Databases”

  3. “Highly recommended viewing”

    Explains modeling relational data efficiently in key-value stores

    kbanman, 2020-03 · Strong recommendation · in “The good parts of AWS: a visual summary”

  4. “I highly recommend every engineer to watch it: it's a great overview of SQL vs NoSQL”

    Great overview of SQL versus NoSQL by Rick Houlihan

    artembugara, 2022-01 · Strong recommendation · in “DynamoDB 10 years later”

  5. “Holy shit what is this wizardry?!”

    Talk that wows Amazon engineers with DynamoDB data layer design

    mabbo, 2022-07 · Strong recommendation · in “The DynamoDB Paper”

  6. “which is indeed excellent , not limited to DynamoDB, and which was kind of a revelation after years of using DynamoDB suboptimally”

    Excellent talk, revelatory about using DynamoDB well

    ronjouch, 2022-07 · Strong recommendation · in “The DynamoDB Paper”

  7. “This is the video I recommend to others when working with dynamodb.”

    Go-to video for learning DynamoDB modeling

    sass_muffin, 2022-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Some notes on DynamoDB 2022 paper”

  8. “I can highly recommend this youtube video on DynamoDB data modelling”

    Teaches modeling relational data in DynamoDB

    dalailambda, 2019-02 · Recommendation · in “Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA”

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

Topics: dynamodb, nosql, single-table design, aws, reinvent

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