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For anyone else expecting this to be a paper given the domain name, it’s not. It’s a non technical interview with a couple of the original papers authors. Not bad, just not as exciting as I imagine a paper detailing what they’ve learnt from a distributed systems perspective etc operating Dynamo then DynamoDB for so long now.

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We don't have a paper on DynamoDB's internals (yet?), but here's a talk you might find interesting from one of the folks who built and ran DDB for a long time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ

And Doug Terry talking through the details of how DynamoDB's transaction protocol works: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast19/presentation/terry

If we did publish more about the internals of DDB, what would you be looking to learn? Architecture? Operational experience? Developer experience? There's a lot of material we could share, and it's useful to hear where people would like us to focus.

All of it - architecture, operational experience, best practices etc.

Just want to second this. All of the above sounds really interesting to me!

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/01/19/predictability.html This might be something you are looking for.

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