BRIKL, a company that helps brands sell customized products online, recently migrated their database from Amazon DynamoDB to YugabyteDB and Hasura GraphQL as part of a larger effort to improve scalability and developer experience. The team's journey was marked by challenges such as high costs, latency issues, and difficulties with data modeling in DynamoDB. To overcome these limitations, BRIKL defined key requirements for their new database, including support for flexible data modeling, global replication, and GraphQL integration. After considering various migration approaches, the team decided to re-architect their application from scratch, breaking it up into microservices and gradually introducing new API endpoints. The actual data migration involved a combination of full table scans, bulk imports, and custom scripts. Despite some initial challenges, BRIKL was able to successfully migrate to YugabyteDB and Hasura GraphQL, achieving improved performance and scalability for their platform.