A) there are no conferences at the moment so I'm getting rusty,
2) I haven't seen @houlihan_rick's reInvent talk yet, and
iii) I've never livetweeted a 400 level talk before, I will now attempt it while watching this video:
No giant wall of logos. Just @houlihan_rick getting right into it.
He has the grace to introduce himself fully, rather than "this is a 400 level DynamoDB talk, you'd better know who I am."
"EXCUSE ME! NO, I'M NOT A PROTESTOR, CAN YOU HANG ON FOR A COUPLE OF MINUTES WHILE I USE THE POTTY?! THANKS!"
"If you have ad-hoc queries, every side of NoSQL is the sharp end."
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"Find me another NoSQL database that can push 54 million TPS."
Ergo you've gotta know your access patterns before you design your tables.
But I certainly pretend to know how noSQL works, since that professional courtesy doesn't apparently extend the other way...
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My mind is spinning.
Huh. This isn't a one-way door after all.
no sequel.
And as an added trivia bonus for reading this far:
He almost certainly wouldn't remember, but back in 2018 before most folks had heard of me, @houlihan_rick and I were on a panel together in Australia.
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