Amazon Web Services
This deep dive session on Amazon DynamoDB provides insights into its architecture, scalability, and performance capabilities. Amrith Kumar, a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS, explains how DynamoDB handles massive workloads of up to half a million requests per second per customer. The presentation covers key topics including capacity modes (On-Demand and Provisioned), transactions, streams, and Global Tables. Kumar discusses the inner workings of DynamoDB's scaling mechanisms, rate limiting, and admission control systems. He also explains how DynamoDB implements transactions, streams, and global replication while maintaining predictable performance at scale. The session offers valuable information for developers and architects looking to leverage DynamoDB's advanced features in their applications.