Ask HN: Is anyone using Amazon DynamoDB?
It seems interesting, is used by Amazon in production and just had its price significantly reduced. Can anyone give some real world usage info? Thanks!
I had a bunch of text files that are basically logs, so I wrote a parer that injected or updated each row in DynamoDB and then put a queue item into an SQS queue to process that row if it was new (since the same ID could show up in any number of log files).
After the initial parsing I ran the other script to do the actual work by sucking items off the queue and processing the rows, which at that point had a column for each log line for that ID.
We prototyped some stuff with it at Lytro but didn't release the functionality. There is a bit of a learning curve to it. You really need to understand what you want to use it for before you start creating things with it.