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October 22, 2022

Real-World Limitations of DynamoDB

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There are countless articles on DynamoDB qua NoSQL, a distributed DB, a high-level comparison to other technologies, and a serverless DB. This is not one of those posts.

The Active Record Pattern

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This post is meant as a ‘high-level’ survey of the Active Record Pattern, Object-Relational Mapping (ORM), and the Ruby on Rails’ implementation of the Active Record Pattern — the ActiveRecord gem.

You NoSQL?

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In the world of databases and database management systems, the big dog is SQL and all of the systems built on top of SQL. However, in the past few years, a newcomer has started rapidly grabbing market share in the database game (the game be real, yo). This upstart is…