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DynamoDB Pitfalls: Throttling, Hot Partitions, and the 400KB Limit

DynamoDB Pitfalls: Mastering the Serverless Scale DynamoDB is a powerful, fully managed NoSQL database, but its serverless nature comes with strict constraints. If you don't design your schema with these limits in mind,…

Apr 20, 20263 min read

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#dynamodb#aws#databases

DatabasesAdvanced

DynamoDB Single Table Design: Advanced Modeling Patterns

DynamoDB Single Table Design: The Senior Engineer's Guide Single Table Design is often considered the "Holy Grail" of DynamoDB modeling. Instead of creating a table for every entity, you store multiple entity types in a…

Apr 20, 20262 min read

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#dynamodb#aws#data-modeling

AWSAdvanced

AWS Lambda in Production: Cold Starts, Concurrency, and Cost Optimization

Lambda's value proposition is compelling: run code without managing servers, pay per invocation, scale from zero to 10,000 concurrent executions without configuration. The reality is a set of execution model nuances that…

Jun 28, 20257 min read

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DatabasesAdvanced

DynamoDB Advanced Patterns: Single-Table Design and Beyond

DynamoDB is a fully managed key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It achieves this with a fundamental constraint: you must define your access patterns before you…

Jun 13, 20259 min read

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#dynamodb#aws#nosql

AWSAdvanced

AWS Lambda: Cold Starts, Memory Tuning, and Cost Optimization

Lambda functions are the easiest compute to get started with and the hardest to tune well. A 2-second cold start is a dealbreaker for a payment API. A 512MB function that runs in 1 second might be cheaper than a 128MB fu…

Mar 7, 202513 min read

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