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Hands-On Amazon DynamoDB for Developers [Video]

By : James Cross
Book Image

Hands-On Amazon DynamoDB for Developers [Video]

By: James Cross

Overview of this book

With this course, you'll understand DynamoDB’s strengths and be aware of its pitfalls to ensure you're set up to succeed. Getting up and started quickly is very important when delivering software. DynamoDB, being a fully managed service in AWS, enables exactly this. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, fast, and flexible NoSQL database service. This course provides you with a good understanding of how the service works and the best way to leverage it while avoiding the common pitfalls. You'll learn how DynamoDB works under the covers. First, you'll explore the very basics, then move on to modelling a system in DynamoDB, to ensure it provides reliable performance and scalability. You'll gain an understanding of the capabilities DynamoDB offers, such as Triggers and learn all about Time to Live and DynamoDB Accelerator. Finally, you’ll learn how to improve the performance and build a high-performance application database. By the end of this course, you'll understand the fundamentals of DynamoDB and be comfortable using it when building your own application. All the code files for this course are available on Github at - https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Amazon-DynamoDB-for-Developers-V-
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 4
Scaling Your DynamoDB Application: Autoscaling, Global Tables, and DAX
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Section 4
Going Global: Deploying Our Application Around the World with Lambda and Global Tables
Understand how to distribute your table globally with Global Tables. - Learn what a global table is and why it matters - Learn about the working of global tables