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DynamoDB: Summary & Notes

Storage is cheap as can be, while compute is at a premium. DynamoDB is a fully-managed, NoSQL database provided by Amazon Web Services. 💡Key Properties of DynamoDB Key-value or wide-column data model Key-value store: retrieve one record at a time. Wide-column store: super-charged version of a hash table where the value for each record in your hash table is a B-tree (think of it as a phonebook: “Give me all entries between Dupond and Dupré”) Infinite scaling with no performance degradation Most operations in DynamoDB have response times in single-digit milliseconds.

February 26, 2023 Read
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ScalaIO 2022: Towards Simplicity?

I had the chance to attend ScalaIO 2022 in Paris. This is my first in-person conference since FOSDEM 2019! Although I haven’t coded in Scala for quite some time, I have been following Scala’s news from afar, as it is quite relevant to my field as well as a topic of personal interest. The conference was packed with tech talks, so I got to learn a great deal about the novelties, the ecosystem, and most importantly, the community’s mindset.

November 4, 2022 Read