Tweet TL;DR – The no. of partitions in a DynamoDB table goes up in response to increased load or storage size, but it never come back down, ever. DynamoDB is pretty great, but as I have seen this particular problem at 3 different companies – Gamesys, JUST EAT, and now Space Ape Games – I think

Tweet Having previously blogged about the untrodden path to enable caching on API Gateway request parameters in the Serverless framework 0.5.X, it’s a little disappointing that it’s still not officially fixed in the 1.X versions… The Problem The problem is two-fold: there’s currently no way to specify caching should be enabled for path & query

Tweet The Road So Far part 1 : overview part 2 : testing and continuous delivery strategies part 3 : ops   Just before Yubl’s untimely demise we did an interesting piece of work to redesign the system for sending targeted push notifications to our users to improve retention. The old system relied on MixPanel for both selecting users as

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Tweet Following on from the last post where we discussed 3 useful tips for working effectively with Lambda and Kinesis, let’s look at how you can use Lambda to help you auto scale Kinesis streams. Auto-scaling for DynamoDB and Kinesis are two of the most frequently requested features for AWS, as I write this post I’m sure the