CSCamma Smithindynamosql.hashnode.dev·Jun 22 · 7 min readBuy vs. Build: The Answer Has ChangedEvery company that uses software eventually faces a version of the same question: should we pay a vendor for this, or build it ourselves? For most of commercial software history, the answer leaned hea00
CSCamma Smithindynamosql.hashnode.dev·Jun 8 · 11 min readRunning Real SQL on DynamoDB: How It Actually Works DynamoDB is good at what it was designed for: fast, predictable reads and writes against known access patterns. It is not designed for ad-hoc queries. If you need to join two tables, aggregate by a co00
CSCamma Smithindynamosql.hashnode.dev·Jun 3 · 7 min readWhy LLM Agents Still Can't Query NoSQL Databases When it comes to SQL databases, LLMs are great at writing SQL. It's precise, expressive, and unambiguous. LLMs write it well. Connect an MCP server to Postgres and the agent can write queries directly10
CSCamma Smithindynamosql.hashnode.dev·Jun 2 · 9 min readWhy We Built an SQL Layer on Top of DynamoDBThe SQL vs. NoSQL debate has been running long enough that most engineers have stopped having it. The real question isn't which is better. It's which tradeoffs you're actually making when you choose o00
