Reading time ~4 minutes NoSQL PaaS databases like AWS DynamoDB or Cosmos DB offer incredible capabilities in scale, speed, and availability. There is also a dark side to those databases. They will punish anyone greatly for mistakes. And no mistakes are punished more than choosing the wrong partition key. Below is an ORDERED list on how to approach selecting the partition key.1. Transaction boundary I can’t stress this enough.This is the most critical factor. If our transaction boundary is wrong, pleas...