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Scaling DynamoDB: The database tier

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Scaling DynamoDB: The database tier

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- [Narrator] As we're continuing to look at persistence or data options and high availability and elasticity. Let's look now at Amazon's no sequel manage offering or DynamoDB, so the idea here is that if you need the persistence in your application, you can work with a fully managed set of no sequel services. In Dynamo as you'll see, there is no concept of a machine or a server or even a database. What you create are scalable tables and these tables are implemented as no sequel. What that means is you can pretty much put almost anything into the table and when you go to read it out, you then impose a schema on read, so that you can get the information out in a format that you need. Now, although the fully managed aspect can be very, very useful in your application architecture, what I found in the real world is if your developers have no experience with no sequel, it can be quite daunting to switch from a relational model to a no sequel model, so if you are going to go down this path,…

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