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DynamoDB Cookbook

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

DynamoDB Cookbook

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
DynamoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. DynamoDB Best Practices

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Using a standalone cache for frequently accessed items

  • Using the AWS ElastiCache for frequently accessed items

  • Compressing large data before storing it in DynamoDB

  • Using AWS S3 for storing large items

  • Catching DynamoDB errors

  • Performing auto-retries on DynamoDB errors

  • Performing atomic transactions on DynamoDB tables

  • Performing asynchronous requests to DynamoDB