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

Amazon Web Services · Nov 28, 2018 · 59m 56s

What this video covers

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 it surfaced in Hacker News

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

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Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

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

“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.”

“Highly recommended viewing”

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