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by taylorwc 1996 days ago
Corey Quinn from Last Week in AWS jokes about using Route53 as a db often, including this hilarious twitter thread [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1120653859561459712
2 comments
donavanm 1995 days ago
Oh the Route 53 team had the same half joke as well. DNS really is a good match for fast globally distributed reads and slowish writes to a hierarchal k/v store. Lots of customers have figured this out to better (or worse) effect.

Source: Principal at AWS, worked on route 53 for a few years.

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0df8dkdf 1995 days ago
* DNS really is a good match for fast globally distributed reads and slowish writes to a hierarchal k/v store*

sounds like another good candidate for distributed TimeSeries DB or DHT type of things.

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zorked 1995 days ago
I don't get what the problem is. He used DNS as a name server, which is what it is. The only weird thing is TXT instead of CNAME.
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