Similarweb’s migration from HBase to Amazon DynamoDB
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Managing massive data volumes at scale presents significant operational challenges. At Similarweb we faced these challenges with Apache HBase and found a solution in Amazon DynamoD...
Today, we are announcing ExtendDB, an open source Amazon DynamoDB-compatible adapter with pluggable storage backends, released under the Apache 2.0 License. ExtendDB implements the...
Docker Compose facilitates spinning up local AWS-compatible services without an AWS account. This post covers DynamoDB Local for key-value storage and ElasticMQ for an SQS-compatib...
This is the last part of a series covering core DynamoDB concepts. The goal is to help you understand idiomatic usage and trade-offs in under an hour. In the first part, I summariz...
A DynamoDB throttle alarm fires at 2 am. You confirm the spike in CloudWatch, then check ElastiCache in a second dashboard, then Redshift in a third. Cache hit rate dropped, which...
So, you want to keep a sorted index in DynamoDB, but for whatever reason – usually throughput-related – it won't fit on a single partition. What do you do? Today, we look at the av...
This is Part 1 of a series on best practices for DynamoDB global tables. In this post, we focus on preparation: understanding how replication works, what your resilience posture lo...
In this post, we show how Dynata simplified database cost optimization and accelerated modernization to AWS Graviton processors by adopting Database Savings Plans. Rather than mana...
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Most recommendation systems are batch jobs. They crunch last night's data, write a recommendations table, and serve it all day. That works fine until your user watches three thrill...
In this post, we show you how to use AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to validate that your application handles regional disruptions the way you expect, by running controlled...
In this post we cover the two primary failover strategies for DynamoDB global tables, the tradeoffs between them, and the operational considerations that you must be aware of durin...
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