Perhaps the docs will improve soon - it is quite a new feature and they've only had 15 years to get it right after all. Besides, it's not like anyone really cares about data integrity 🤯

How did it take me so long to see these photos?! Grateful for a solid crew that day David - thanks for making the journey. Let's plan an even bigger adventure next time 😀

You mention the concept of a "consistent write" and to me this seems quite out of place. IMO, the property that is actually meaningful in context of an applied mutation is isolation.

Only if anyone was actually using on-demand and global tables at scale.

Coming years will be like one big long episode of a lousy reality TV show. Americans seem to be hooked on the drama.

One thing I see in this blog post is people running etcd on … EBS volumes, which of course introduced insane latency into fsync.

zendesk.engineering/etcd-getting...

Perhaps the first step in dealing with etcd performance is sitting on an acceptable local SSD?

Can't quite tell what you're talking about here.

Not unusual, but I would start raising questions now.

+1 for awk

I expect in time that DSQL will become a very good alternative to DDB for a great many use cases - now's a good time to experiment and share learnings!

Finally there are limitations which don't seem well defined yet. For example we know DSQL can have hot key contention on writes, but we don't know when to expect it. With DynamoDB we know it's 1000 writes/second for a given item up to 1KB in size.

DSQL is in preview and it could remain so for some time - the service has not yet had the level of production experience of DynamoDB and might have some wrinkles to iron out. I think also that there will be modeling best practices to map out - how to model for most consistent latency results.

Hi Luke - thanks for the shout out on my article - so glad you found some value in reading it. Your question about whether to choose DDB or DSQL is one that will be top of mind for many I think. IMO, for the moment DDB is still the steady and reliable production choice.

Dislike. "Good morning! Here is what I ate last night". Our dog has been having some sort of GI trouble of late - similar middle-of-the-night surprises.