SmugMug: From MySQL to Amazon DynamoDB (DAT204) | AWS re:Invent 2013
Published on Nov 26, 2013
SmugMug.com is a popular hosting and commerce platform for photo enthusiasts with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of viewers. Learn now SmugMug uses Amazon DynamoDB to provide customers detailed information about millions of daily image and video views. Smugmug shares code and information about their stats stack, which includes an HTTP interface to Amazon DynamoDB and also interfaces with their internal PHP stack and other tools such as Memcached. Get a detailed picture of lessons learned and the methods SmugMug uses to create a system that is easy to use, reliable, and high performing.