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    DynamoDB and Hot Hash Keys ☶ distributed scaling nate.io
    nkohari avatar via nkohari 4 years ago | cached | 1 comment

This was a rookie mistake I made yesterday, and wanted others to avoid similar problems. tl;dr – Be careful trusting the “cloud” abstraction.

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      nkohari avatar nkohari 4 years ago | link
      1. How does caching help with hot keys in a write-heavy scenario like this?
      2. I’d still describe a mean of ~10ms for writes as fast, particularly given the distributed nature of the system. That doesn’t preclude the possibility that a heavily denormalized MySQL implementation would be faster.

      All in all, DynamoDB is a great fit for what we’re doing – we just made a pretty boneheaded design decision by keying in the way that we did.