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Send Email Attachments With The Amazon SES API
SES makes it really easy to send attachments in your emails
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Uriel Bitton
Using Sparse Indexes for Efficient Filtering in DynamoDB
How sparse indexes help you lower cost and make reads more efficient
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Uriel Bitton
Using AWS CloudWatch Contributor Insights To Detect High Traffic DynamoDB Partitions
Monitoring hot partitions is key to optimizing cost and performance in DynamoDB
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Uriel Bitton
Using DynamoDB Streams Vs Updating Data In A Transaction
When to choose between event driven updating vs updating data directly in a transaction
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Uriel Bitton

May 2025

How to Model Versioned Data in DynamoDB
Exploring patterns for modeling versioned data efficiently with real-world strategies.
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Uriel Bitton
How To Easily Add TTLs To Your Objects In Amazon S3
To have them expire automatically by AWS
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Uriel Bitton
7 AWS Lambda Cost Optimizations I Learned After 6 Years
I share 7 tried and tested cost and performance techniques I personally use for all my serverless functions
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Uriel Bitton
Fan-Out with DynamoDB Streams and Lambda To Build Event-Driven Designs
Design powerful event-driven architectures with DynamoDB Streams and Lambda.
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Uriel Bitton
AWS Lambda Best Practices For Performant & Scalable Serverless Functions
How I design my serverless functions optimized for scalable production workloads
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Uriel Bitton
How To Secure Your API Endpoints With AWS Cognito
The easiest and quickest way to secure your API endpoints in AWS
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Uriel Bitton
How to Think in Access Patterns First With DynamoDB
Shifting mindset from SQL to DynamoDB-first thinking.
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Uriel Bitton
What Are Global Secondary Indexes And How To Use Them?
How to easily create and use secondary indexes in DynamoDB
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Uriel Bitton
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