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Amazon DynamoDB - The Definitive Guide
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Amazon DynamoDB - The Definitive Guide

by Aman Dhingra, Mike Mackay
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
414 pages
12h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Welcome to the eighth chapter of The Definitive Guide! By now, you’ve probably developed a good understanding of the principles and data patterns that can be used to model data in DynamoDB. These include considerations such as when to denormalize data to avoid making runtime compute-intensive joins, when to duplicate data to prebuild the data as your application would need it, and when to go for a multi-table strategy as opposed to a single-table one. There is obviously more to do with NoSQL and DynamoDB than just these concepts, but in a nutshell, they do represent some of the key aspects.

When DynamoDB was launched back in 2012 (1), it was quickly adopted by customers. This was also documented only a few months later by ...

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