Getting ready

All of these calculations assume that you have chosen a good partition key for your data. A good partition key ensures the following:

  • Data is evenly spread across all the available partitions
  • Read and write activity is spread evenly in time

Unfortunately, choosing a good partition key is very data-specific, and beyond the scope of this recipe.

All reads are assumed to be strongly consistent.

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