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I am very excited to announce that after many months or hard work, I finally released my second Pluralsight course; A DynamoDB Playbook – Using it in Production. Playbook format As you could probably guess by the title, this course is not the usual Pluralsight course. It is designed in a playbook format, which means […]

The recent AWS Reinvent 2017 event saw some major announcements, including a couple of exciting ones for DynamoDB users. Global tables and On-Demand backups. In this post, I’ll be taking a quick look at on-demand backups, how they work and how we can schedule them to regularly take full backups. What are On-Demand Backups? On-Demand […]

Before we start: If you have missed the previous three posts, please check them out here: Part One Part Two Part Three At this stage, I’m going to assume you are comfortable with DynamoDb Incremental Backups, and the format they are stored in. In this post, we will walk through the restore step, and I’ll […]

If you missed the first two parts of this series, check out Part One and Part Two. In this post, I’ll go through the inner workings of our Lambda Function.

The next blog post in this series, we will delve into the details of our DynamoDb incremental backup solution. If you missed the first post, check it out: Part One I am not going to delve into DynamoDb too much. If you are reading this blog post, I will be assuming you know about DynamoDb, looking […]

DynamoDb is an AWS fully managed NoSQL service, which provides a fast and predictable data store. We’ve been using it for several microservices in the past 18 months, and one feature that is sorely missed, are incremental backups. AWS provides an option to take snapshots of your table using a service called DataPipeline. At a […]

AWS Specialist, passionate about DynamoDB and the Serverless movement.

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Introduction to CloudFormation

Getting Started with DynamoDB

DynamoDB in Production

Intro to CloudFormation Course

Using DynamoDB in Production – New Course

DynamoDB: Monitoring Capacity and Throttling

Pluralsight Course: Getting Started with DynamoDB

Partition Throttling: How to detect hot Partitions / Keys

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