Understanding Amazon's Dynamo

In this episode, Fadekemi and Ayomide discuss Dynamo, Amazon's distributed KV store designed for high availability and reliability. They explore its architecture, including partitioning and replication strategies, how it handles read and write operations, and unique strategies the team employed for anti-entropy mechanisms, node management and failure detection.Here's a link to the paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kRghRThmDsXY5HrmDDHSSwYnFaohS0Bc/view?usp=sharing

An overview of Chapter 1 of Database Internal by Alex Petrov. Ayomide Oyekanmi leads the discussions.

Moses joined Google as an L3 ~4 years ago, and in that time, he has been promoted three times. In this session, we dive into his career and life and talk through anecdotes that give insights into how he has been so prolific.

Speaker: Anthony Alaribe (@tonialaribe)

Speakers: Great Umegbewe (@0xGreat) and Emmanuel Bakare (@TiemmaBakare)

Speaker: Ope Onikute

Speaker: Justin Irabor

Speaker: Moses Koledoye (@MoVonLagos)

Speaker: Bob Nystrom

Speaker: Shalvah Adebayo