My Top 10 Articles On DynamoDB This Year
Discover and learn from my best and most-read DynamoDB articles in 2024.
As2024 comes to a close, I’ve had some time to reflect on the value I’ve provided over this past year and how I’ve helped others learn.
I am particularly proud of the articles I’ve written that have helped business owners, developers, and cloud enthusiasts to build better, more efficient and more scalable databases.
Scalability has always been an issue for many and is much more common than most think.
Efficiency is a key element in DynamoDB, and when I realized that a lot of folks were using DynamoDB wrong, I made it a point to focus on how to help this group of people build more efficient databases.
Performance is a universal requirement and no one does it better than DynamoDB.
If your application requires performance — that is consistently fast queries at any scale — then DynamoDB is the database you absolutely need.
All of my articles have focused on one of these key elements with strategies on how to implement them in your DynamoDB databases.
From data modeling workshops, to real application use cases, what to do and what not to do, my articles have delved into all of these so you can learn proper DynamoDB database design.
Without further ado, I present you my curated list of my best 10 articles on DynamoDB:
1. The Ultimate Guide To Getting Started With DynamoDB
Learn the fundamentals of DynamoDB with this getting started guide that teaches you everything you need to start building your database with DynamoDB
Article: https://medium.com/towards-aws/the-ultimate-guide-to-getting-started-with-dynamodb-6e6dbee83ad3
2. Time-to-Live (TTL) Best Practices in DynamoDB
Learn how to save big on your DynamoDB monthly costs by designing your data with TTLs in mind.
Article: https://medium.com/towards-aws/time-to-live-ttl-best-practices-in-dynamodb-11d67920b69b
3. Designing A Scalable Voting System With DynamoDB
Learn DynamoDB scalability with the perfect data modeling challenge: designing the database for a voting system.
4. The Journey Of A DynamoDB Query: A Behind The Scenes Adventure
Designing a scalable DynamoDB database requires you to understand how DynamoDB works under the hood, this article delves into the journey of a DynamoDB query.
5. The 7 DynamoDB Sins
This one was a flagship article — packed with value on the 7 most common bad practices to avoid with DynamoDB. Learning and understanding these will set you apart from most DynamoDB users.
Article: https://medium.com/aws-in-plain-english/the-7-dynamodb-sins-114c1198e532
6. Let’s Build An E-commerce App With DynamoDB And The Single Table Design
DynamoDB’s superpower is the single table design — this is exactly how the pros design all of their databases — using the single table design will change EVERYTHING for your database’s scalability and efficiency.
7. Using DynamoDB Streams To Update Denormalized Data
DynamoDB streams are one of DynamoDB’s most powerful tools. With streams you can unlock features like real-time data, downstream data processing and a lot more.
8. The 3 Most Important Concepts To Design A Scalable DynamoDB Table
A core article in DynamoDB scalability — this one is about the 3 most important concepts you need to understand if you wish to make your database scalable.
9. How DynamoDB Makes Any Query Super Efficient At Any Scale
Designing efficient queries is all about the partition and sort keys in DynamoDB — learn how understanding this lets you build scalable and performing databases.
10. How To Efficiently Model Your Data With Amazon DynamoDB
One of the most important articles I published this year was about efficient data modeling in DynamoDB — you don’t want to miss this one.
Summary
Out of over 100 articles I published on DynamoDB, these are fundamental, necessary reads if you are serious about building scalable and performing databases.
I hope that you find all of these articles (or at least one) useful.
I also hope that they can help set you on the right path toward building not only the most fitting database for your application but the one your business needs.
👋 My name is Uriel Bitton and I’m committed to helping you master Serverless, Cloud Computing, and AWS.
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Thanks for reading and see you in the next one!