1 year ago

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickhoulihan/ When most people think about Amazon, they think of the cloud. But the company was founded more than a decade before anyone was talking about the cloud. In fact, by 2002, when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wrote a https://old.gigaom.com/2011/10/12/419-the-biggest-thing-amazon-got-right-the-platform/ directing all new software development to be designed around service-oriented architecture, Amazon was already a $5 billion enterprise.

Amazon chose to use its own NoSQL database, but the lessons from that huge effort are valuable for any migration to a NoSQL or document database.

Once we started learning how to use NoSQL at Amazon, we started having better results.