Pete Naylor

@petenaylor

Washington, USJoined September 2023

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I am available for DynamoDB data model reviews, data modeling and operations education sessions, and cost optimization reviews.

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PNPete Naylorblog.highbar.solutionsFeb 29, 2024 · 5 min read

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 3)

You made it to part 3! This is the last part of the blog - I promise. But it is probably the one I'm most excited about - consider it the crescendo, if you please. In 2018, DynamoDB launched support for distributed transactions. These allow you to ex...

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PNPete Naylorblog.highbar.solutionsFeb 29, 2024 · 6 min read

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 2)

In part 1 of this blog, we looked at some of the error handling challenges for clients connecting over a network to databases. We learned that when retries are involved, idempotency is a good property to have - but it doesn't automatically ensure tha...

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PNPete Naylorblog.highbar.solutionsFeb 29, 2024 · 8 min read

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 1)

It's a story as old as time: how can a remote database client be sure that a mutation was successfully committed? Okay, the old as time part might be a little grandiose - but it's true that any time you talk to a database over a network, you're intro...

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PNPete Naylorblog.highbar.solutionsFeb 11, 2024 · 15 min read

What to expect from serverless

Lately I've been seeing so much churn around what does and does not constitute a "serverless" product that I am getting weary of the term. It is being misused for short-term gain by both proponents and critics - some in glass hype houses have been th...

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PNPete Naylorblog.highbar.solutionsJan 21, 2024 · 7 min read

The ideal DynamoDB capacity mode

DynamoDB offers two capacity modes for read and write requests: the original provisioned capacity and the more recent on-demand capacity. Unfortunately, adding On-Demand as an option actually makes things more difficult for DynamoDB customers because...

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Pete Naylor's blogs

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DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 3)

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 2)

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 1)

What to expect from serverless

The ideal DynamoDB capacity mode

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Pete Naylor

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Pete Naylor's blogs

Recently published

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 3)

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 2)

DynamoDB errors: handle with care! (pt 1)

What to expect from serverless

The ideal DynamoDB capacity mode