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0 pointsabalone7y ago0 comments

> DynamoDB does offer autoscaling these days, which should alleviate a lot of provisioning-related headaches

The problem they noted isn't lack of autoscaling, it's that you have to provision the entire datastore to accommodate your hottest partition.

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paragraft7y ago

GP used the wrong term, think they meant adaptive capacity, which is a newer feature where shards will automatically lend capacity to each other in the case of hotspots.

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0 pointsabalone7y ago0 comments

> DynamoDB does offer autoscaling these days, which should alleviate a lot of provisioning-related headaches

The problem they noted isn't lack of autoscaling, it's that you have to provision the entire datastore to accommodate your hottest partition.

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paragraft7y ago

GP used the wrong term, think they meant adaptive capacity, which is a newer feature where shards will automatically lend capacity to each other in the case of hotspots.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse