DynamoDB

Master DynamoDB from first principles. Tables, keys, and access patterns. GSIs, single-table design, transactions, and Streams. Production topics: hot partitions, DAX, cost optimisation, backups, and security.

FundamentalsTopics 1–10

·What is DynamoDB?
·Tables, Items, and Attributes
·Partition Key and Sort Key
·Capacity Modes
·Reading Data
·Writing Data
·Expressions
·Data Types
·Local Secondary Indexes
·The DynamoDB Mental Model

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IntermediateTopics 11–20

·Access Patterns: The Core Principle
·Global Secondary Indexes
·GSI Overloading
·Composite Sort Keys
·DynamoDB Streams
·TTL: Time to Live
·Transactions
·Conditional Writes in Practice
·Pagination
·Batch Operations

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AdvancedTopics 21–30

·Single-Table Design
·One-to-Many Relationships
·Many-to-Many Relationships
·Hierarchical Data
·Sparse Indexes
·Write Sharding
·Event Sourcing with DynamoDB
·DynamoDB and Lambda Patterns
·Schema Evolution
·Transactions at Scale

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ProductionTopics 31–40

·Cost Optimisation
·Hot Partitions: Detection and Mitigation
·DAX: DynamoDB Accelerator
·Monitoring and Alarms
·Backup and Point-in-Time Recovery
·Global Tables
·Security: IAM, Encryption, VPC
·Migration Patterns
·Performance Tuning
·Production Checklist

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