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Unlocking the Power of DynamoDB: A Developer's Journey


’s Journey November 30, 2024 Early Skepticism My impression of what I understood by “serverless” was not so positive. Previously, I had worked with the Firebase ecosystem in a team responsible for migrating a decent-sized Firestore database into a Postgres database.

The process was so arduous that I became convinced NoSQL was either useful for apps with a very simple schema or for very specific use cases, like extremely high throughput and low latency. The ability to easily launch API endpoints in our preferred programming language—with high security, observability, seamless scalability, and more—without having to configure a server from scratch was instantly attractive. DynamoDB checked all the boxes in terms of compatibility with the AWS ecosystem, security, ease of configuration, and maintenance—but I wasn’t sure it was the right fit for modeling our problem.

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