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by sheepy 1956 days ago
Thumbs up for the stack and overall look&feel! Is DynamoDB a hard dependency or it could be swapped for Firebase Firestore?
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Hey thanks! I wouldn't say it's a hard dependency, in fact it can work with other things that are API-compatible with DynamoDB, like Scylla for example if you wanted to self-host everything:

http://scylla.docs.scylladb.com/master/alternator/alternator

And in terms of using something like Firestore, the storage needs of this are very simple so it wouldn't be very hard to add that in. I tried to keep all the persistence-related functionality separated off, so it is swappable:

https://github.com/pickledish/cardi/tree/master/src/dynamodb

Thanks for the shout-out!

While you can run Scylla Open Source self-hosted for free, we also have a fully-managed version of our enterprise software on Scylla Cloud.

https://www.scylladb.com/product/scylla-cloud/