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Mastering DynamoDB
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Mastering DynamoDB

by Tanmay Deshpande
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
236 pages
5h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Item best practices

There can be various ways in which we can improve item access, some of which we are going to discuss in this section.

Caching

Sometimes, we might need to use a certain item or set of items more frequently than others. Also, there is a good chance that lesser value updates will be made for such items. In this case, you can use caching to store items at cache level, and whenever required, you can simply fetch that from cache. The use of cache reduces the number of calls made to DynamoDB, hence improving the time and cost efficiency.

For example, you have a lookup table whose values are fixed and do not change over time, and there are a few items in that table that are very popular. In that case, you can simply use caching to store ...

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