DynamoDB: An Introduction

This course is designed for those interested to learn the basics of DynamoDB and how it works, how to avoid the common pitfalls and understand how to leverage it. Read more.

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Beginner

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1h 42m

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About This Course

Who this course is for:

AWS developers
Database administrators and developers

What you’ll learn:

The basics of DynamoDB
Capabilities of DynamoDB
How to create tables
How to create, query, and modify data
How to build DynamoDB triggers
How to optimize queries with indexes
Common DynamoDB pitfalls

Requirements:

We are going to assume you’ve worked with databases before, but no prior knowledge of NoSQL is required.
You need to have basic experience with AWS such as access to an existing account, access and ability to navigate through the AWS Management Console.
It will be helpful but it’s not required to have experience with CloudWatch, IAM, CloudFormation, and AWS Lambda.

Getting up and starting quickly is very important when delivering software. DynamoDB, being a fully managed service in AWS, enables exactly this.

In this course, you’ll learn how DynamoDB works under the covers.

First, you’ll explore the very basics, and then move onto modeling a system in DynamoDB, to ensure it provides reliable performance and scalability.

Next, you’ll gain an understanding of the capabilities DynamoDB offers, such as Triggers.

Finally, you’ll learn all about Time to Live and DynamoDB Accelerator.

When you are finished with this course, you’ll have a solid grasp of DynamoDB as a service, the power it offers you, and understanding how to leverage it, while avoiding its common pitfalls.

Our Promise to You

By the end of this course, you will have learned about functions of DynamoDB and its common pitfalls.

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Course Curriculum

Section 1 - Introduction
	Introduction	00:00:00
	Environment Setup	00:00:00
Section 2 - The Basics of DynamoDB
	What Is DynamoDB?	00:00:00
	Terminology	00:00:00
	Tables	00:00:00
	Data Types	00:00:00
	Capacity Units	00:00:00
Section 3 - Creating Our Tables
	Table Design	00:00:00
	Creating Tables In AWS Management Console	00:00:00
	Creating Tables In AWS CloudFormation	00:00:00
	Creating Tables In Code	00:00:00
	List And Describe Table APIs	00:00:00
	Update Table API	00:00:00
Section 4 - Creating, Querying And Modifying Our Data
	Working With Items In AWS Management Console	00:00:00
	AWS SDK And DynamoDB JSON Schema	00:00:00
	Write API: PutItem	00:00:00
	Write API: UpdateItem	00:00:00
	Write API: DeleteItem	00:00:00
	Read Operations	00:00:00
	Read API: GetItem	00:00:00
	Read API: Query	00:00:00
	Read API: Scan	00:00:00
	Batch API: BatchGetItem	00:00:00
	Batch API: BatchWriteItem	00:00:00
Section 5 - Building DynamoDB Triggers
	DynamoDB Triggers	00:00:00
	DynamoDB Stream Events	00:00:00
	DynamoDB Triggers	00:00:00
Section 6 - Optimizing Our Queries With Indexes
	Query: First Use Case	00:00:00
	Local Secondary Index	00:00:00
	Query: Second Use Case	00:00:00
	Global Secondary Index	00:00:00
Section 7 - Capabilities In DynamoDB
	Time To Live	00:00:00
	Time To Live	00:00:00
	Auto Scaling	00:00:00
	DAX	00:00:00
Section 8 - Avoiding Common DynamoDB Pitfalls
	Data Modeling	00:00:00
	Pricing	00:00:00
	Hard Limits	00:00:00
	Unique Identifiers	00:00:00