Amazon’s Dynamo
2007-10-04
Here’s a fascinating article by Amazon on how they built a highly scalable and reliable key/value store for use with their e-commerce platform. It’s incredible to hear that a single page request to amazon.com might involve over 100 invocations to other fine-grained services, all of which must return within 300ms 99.9% of the time. Having worked on a (much smaller) e-commerce site, it’s really interesting to hear the steps required to scale a site orders of magnitude farther than we ever did.