Amazon DynamoDB: Evolution of a Hyperscale Cloud Database Service
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Akshat Vig presents Amazon’s experience operating DynamoDB at scale and how the architecture continues to evolve to meet the ever-increasing demands of customer workloads.
Akshat Vig is a Principal Engineer at AWS. Akshat has been working on DynamoDB since its inception. He is one of the primary authors on the DynamoDB paper published at USENIX. He has filed close to 100 patents, served on IEEE program committees, and has given keynotes around the world.
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Vig: How many of you ever wanted a database that provides predictable performance, higher availability, and is fully managed? What I'm going to do is talk about evolution of a hyperscale cloud database service, which is DynamoDB. Talk through the lessons that we have learned over the years, while building this hyperscale database. I am Akshat Vig. I'm a Principal Engineer in Amazon DynamoDB team. I've been with DynamoDB right from its inception.
