[mabbo]

After seeing Rick's Re:invent talk, the one where at about minute 40 everyones' heads exploded, I emailed him (I'm in a very far away other department of Amazon) to ask him for more, because everything he was saying was absolutely not the way my group was using DynamoDB (ie: we were doing it wrong).

He could have ignored my email entirely. He's a busy guy, right? I wouldn't have held it against him at all. Instead, he was super nice, provided me with more documentation, and honestly was just really helpful.

If he recommends your book, I'm buying it.

[cityzen]

Shout out to Rick Houlihan! I even made my wife watch his 2018 talk!

[swyx]

aww thats such a nice story to hear :) i would absolutely hope he treats internal customers the same as external.

[abd12]

Thanks! Yea, Rick is awesome and really helpful. He wrote the foreword to the book as well :)

[HatchedLake721]

Link please?

[abd12]

Rick has had the most-watched re:Invent talk the last three years.

Here are the links for each:

- 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqfmXiZTlM

- 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k

- 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzeKPKpucS0

Additional DynamoDB links here: https://github.com/alexdebrie/awesome-dynamodb