Amazon DynamoDB: Building NoSQL Database-Driven Applications

Week 1: Relational and NoSQL Databases

• SQL, NoSQL and DynamoDB
  • Relational databases and the problems that need solving
  • How most NoSQL databases work
  • Introduction to DynamoDB
  • How DynamoDB works and how it's different than other NoSQL databases
  • Basic DynamoDB code operations

Week 2: Recovery, SDK Exploration, Monitoring and Partitioning

• Recovery and SDKs
  • Backing up and restoring a DynamoDB table
  • DynamoDB API Working with datasets
• Monitoring
  • Monitoring DynamoDB
• Partition keys
  • Partition keys and their impact on performance

Week 3: Security and State

• Working with DynamoDB Security
  • Encryption and Compliance
  • Access controls - Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) end points
• State
  • Global tables
  • Stateless applications
  • Streams
• Acceleration
  • DynamoDB Accelerator

Week 4: Diving deep and best practices

• Query Optimization
  • Optimistic Locking
  • LSI and GSI
  • DynamoDB API - writing better queries
• Schema Design
  • Single table
  • DynamoDB transactions and versioning