Aryan Walia·Oct 28, 2025Anatomy of a Cascading failure : AWS US East -1 (Oct 2025 ) outageThe AWS US-EAST-1 outage in October 2025 is a textbook case study in cascading failure. To put it naively, a race condition in the Dynamo…
Katturaja Mookkan·Feb 27, 2025Multi-Tenancy Strategies in DynamoDBWhen using Amazon DynamoDB for multi-tenant architecture, the approach differs from relational databases (RDS). Instead of Schemas per…
Katturaja Mookkan·Feb 24, 2025Single Table vs. Table per Schema in DynamoDB: Optimizing for ThroughputDynamoDB enforces throughput limits at the table level (unless using On-Demand mode).
InAppsFlyer EngineeringbyRita Isakovich·Nov 5, 2024Double Trouble: A Tale of Scaling, Migrating, and Database RetuningEven the best databases can struggle as time goes by and user numbers grow. For our team at AppsFlyer, adhering to the “if it ain’t broke…
