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I think the original DynamoDB paper is a good choice - some interesting CS/systems engineering content but relatively accessible.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...

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Notably, the Dynamo paper is _not_ a description of how DynamoDB (the product available from AWS today) works. They are fundamentally different, and it is not possible to implement notable features like conditional updates using the algorithms described in the Dynamo paper.

That’s interesting. I was going to take a stab at reading that first since I frequently use DynamoDB (Amazon product) at work.

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