September 23, 2025Episode 11 hr 45 min
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
