the.com/amazon dynamodb
a database that trades your favorite queries for uptime that never blinks.
means a fully managed nosql key-value and document database built to serve predictable low-latency reads and writes at any scale.
from born from amazon's own 2007 dynamo paper, written after christmas 2004 outages proved relational databases buckle under holiday-scale shopping carts.
prime day proofhandled trillions of requests during 2023 prime day
latency promisesingle-digit millisecond response regardless of table size
no serversyou never patch, shard, or provision a single machine
partition key ruledesign wrong and your hot key throttles everything
for instance
lyft ride state — tracks in-flight ride data for real-time dispatch
duolingo streaks — stores user progress data for hundreds of millions of learners
snapchat backend — handles massive write throughput for ephemeral messaging