/1 Amazon DynamoDB powered 89 million requests per second during prime days. How does it do that?
The diagrams below are my attempt to draw the latest architecture of DynamoDB based on the 2022 paper. Please leave a comment if you spot any mistakes.
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/2 Multi-Paxos group
/3 Write-ahead log & B-tree
/4 Periodic archive
/5 Dependencies on external service
/6 Other good reads:
DynamoDB 2022 paper: usenix.org/system/files/a…
Key Takeaways from the DynamoDB Paper by @alexbdebrie: alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb…
Some notes on DynamoDB 2022 paper by @dxhuang: http://_.0xffff.me/dynamodb2022.html
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