I’ve been using DynamoDB for a few months now after re-architecting a system which started becoming painful to scale on a traditional RDBMS system. The problem wasn’t necessarily read/write performance but rather the total storage space needed as a lot of “unstructured” blobs was stored in the DB. DynamoDB gives me a care free setup… Continue reading The economic scalability of DynamoDB
Tag: Rackspace Cloud
Performance: Rackspace Cloud vs Amazon Web Services
Performance related posts and articles seem to be rather popular, with my Java vs C++ post being one of the big traffic drivers on this blog. Now it’s time to do another one, with a very specific use case in mind. I’m into the third and final term for my masters in quantitative finance. As part of… Continue reading Performance: Rackspace Cloud vs Amazon Web Services