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Amazon DynamoDBService

3 companies

CanvaCompany
Online design and visual communication platform.
uses

To meet the increasing scalability needs, we first moved the raw usage events in the collection stage, over to DynamoDB.

Canva moving raw usage events to DynamoDB

canva.dev ↗·2024-04-12Wrong?

TwitchCompany
Live-streaming platform, owned by Amazon.
uses

Successfully-created subscriptions will contain callback information which instructs EventSub on where to send notification payloads; this information, along with other metadata, is stored in Amazon DynamoDB.

Twitch on storing EventSub subscription data in DynamoDB

blog.twitch.tv ↗·2023-09-28Wrong?

UK news publisher; its developer blog covers the engineering behind theguardian.com.
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Unfortunately at the time Dynamo didn’t support encryption at rest.

DynamoDB was the obvious choice for the Guardian CMS migration off MongoDB but lacked encryption at rest

theguardian.com ↗·2018-11-30Wrong?

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:

A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.