Top Links from Issue #142

Everything you need to know about DynamoDB Partitions
Prefer video? View this post on YouTube! DynamoDB powers some of the highest-traffic systems in the world, including Amazon.com’s shopping cart, real-time bidding for ad platforms, and low-latency gaming applications. They use DynamoDB because of its fast, consistent performance at any scale.

How We Kept Datadog From Blowing Up Our AWS Bill by Originally published
What are our real costs? Identifying the problem The impact of removing the Datadog layer Some time back, our engineering leaders suddenly noticed dramatically increased billings from AWS that far outpaced typical benchmarks.

Announcing the Alpha Release of sls-test-tools by Ben Ellerby
Today we’re very pleased to announce the alpha release of sls-test-tools — providing a range of utilities, setup, teardown and assertions to make it easier to write effective and high quality integration tests for Serverless architectures on AWS.

Asynchronous API with DynamoDB Streams by Vikas Solegaonkar
Responsiveness is one of the most important parameters for the success of any web application. And asynchronous processing is The Solution for attaining this responsiveness. A server request from the browser should return immediately — without wait for completion.

Learn how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB
The courses take 90-150 minutes to complete and include scenario-based animations, reading modules, demonstrations, quizzes, and optional self-paced labs. The self-paced labs cost up to 15 USD per lab (this cost is not included with free digital training on aws.training). Enroll now.