It goes without saying that a 5000ms latency is… unacceptable in a real-time environment. Honestly, we first blamed our home-grown DynamoDB-Mapper and, indeed found, and fixed, a nasty design. Here is the specific commit for those liking juicy details Ok, so “case closed” you might think. Sadly not, it did not change anything but since this behavior was random and the application still under very low load (development environment) it took some time to spot it again. Case re-opened.
