Skip to Main Content
Mastering DynamoDB
book

Mastering DynamoDB

by Tanmay Deshpande
August 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
236 pages
5h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Mastering DynamoDB

Tools

Like libraries, there are various tools available for general use. Some of the tools help to scale the DynamoDB database automatically, while some others help you do local testing of your code.

The following is a list of tools and their specifications.

Tools for testing

Considering the fact that each and every call to DynamoDB costs money, sometimes it gets difficult to use DynamoDB for the purposes of testing and development.

DynamoDB Local

We have already seen what DynamoDB local is in Chapter 1, Getting Started. Just to revisit, DynamoDB Local is a lightweight client-side database that roughly mimics the actual DynamoDB implementation. To enable DynamoDB Local, you need to download the JAR and run it using the next command. You can download ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

AWS Cookbook

AWS Cookbook

John Culkin, Mike Zazon
Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition

Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition

Yan Cui, Ajay Nair, Peter Sbarski

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781783551958Supplemental Content