Rick Houlihan

In this fast-paced session filled with real-life examples, Rick Houlihan takes a look at performance benchmarks of real applications and how that performance changes as we change our schema.

NoSQL represents a new way of thinking about data. Traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been baked into software development for decades, and most teams think about their data in that context.

Every year at re:Invent, AWS Senior Practice Manager Rick Houlihan leads a technical session dedicated to advanced users of Amazon DynamoDB. He explains design patterns and data models that are based on a collection of implementations and best practices used by a variety of customers to deliver highly scalable solutions for a range of business problems.

Every year, AWS Principal Technologist Rick Houlihan leads this technical session dedicated to advanced users of Amazon DynamoDB. He explains design patterns and data models that are based on a collection of implementations and best practices used by a variety of customers to deliver highly scalable solutions for a range of business problems.

In this second part of the advanced design patterns for Amazon DynamoDB series, AWS Principal Technologist Rick Houlihan reviews more common patterns for this highly scalable NoSQL database service. He demonstrates how to optimize shard keys to ensure even workload distribution, dives into GSI replication lag, and shows how to support operational analytics with Amazon DynamoDB Streams and AWS...

When Amazon decided to migrate thousands of application services to NoSQL, many of those services required complex relational models that could not be reduced to simple key-value access patterns.

This technical session is for advanced users of Amazon DynamoDB. The patterns and data models discussed in this presentation summarize a collection of implementations and best practices used by large customers—including Amazon retail businesses—to deliver highly scalable solutions for a wide variety of business problems.

Join us for a practical hands-on workshop on using Amazon DynamoDB. This session is designed for developers, engineers, and database administrators who are involved in designing and maintaining DynamoDB applications.