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Hands-On Microservices with Rust
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Hands-On Microservices with Rust

by Denis Kolodin
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
14h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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DynamoDB

We used local database instances in this chapter. The disadvantage of maintaining databases yourself is that you also have to take care of scalability yourself. There are a lot of services that provide popular databases that automatically scale to meet your needs. But not every database can grow without limits: traditional SQL databases often experience speed performance issues when tables become huge. For large datasets, you should choose to use key-value databases (such as NoSQL) that provide scalability by design. In this section, we will explore the usage of DynamoDB, which was created by Amazon, to provide an easily scalable database as a service.

To use AWS services, you need the AWS SDK, but there is no official SDK for Rust, ...

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