Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
by cbdumas on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:46PM
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I can't speak to your specific use case, but I can tell you that a relatively small RDS instance is probably a lot more performant than you think. There is also "Aurora Serverless" now which I've just started to play with but might suit your needs.
As far as what makes Dynamo a good fit, I almost take the other approach and try to ask myself, what makes Postgres a bad fit? Postgres is so flexible and powerful that IMO you need a really good reason to walk away from that as the default.
Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on
by virmundi on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:09PM
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Aurora wasn’t allowed at the time. The system is a simple stream logging app. Wonderful for our use case. Dynamo for so far. Corp politics made the RDS instance annoying to pursue.
As far as what makes Dynamo a good fit, I almost take the other approach and try to ask myself, what makes Postgres a bad fit? Postgres is so flexible and powerful that IMO you need a really good reason to walk away from that as the default.