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Why We Chose ScyllaDB over DynamoDB for “User Watch Status”

Yichen WeiAdam Drennan18 minutes

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Yichen Wei and Adam Drennan share the architecture and technical requirements behind "user watch status" for a major global media streaming service, what that meant for their database, the pros and cons of the many options they considered for replacing DynamoDB, why they ultimately chose ScyllaDB, and their lessons learned so far.

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Yichen Wei, Senior Software Engineer, Hulu

Distributed computing and storage engineer for HPC, microservices and ML/Data platforms for many years. Evangelist of type-driven development and category theory for developers.

Adam Drennan, Senior Software Engineer

Backend software engineer with a focus on HA, low-latency distributed systems.

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