Learning the code way

In the last post we setup a simple CDK project that resulted in creation of dynamodb table. Let us analyze the code further.

 In the previous post I created my first AWS Resource using AWS CloudFormation. This was done using a JSON file called the CloudFormation te...

Before I start - CloudFormation is by far one of the weirdest and coolest things to have come out of AWS. It took me some time to grasp it (...

In the previous post we created a container image for our code and pushed the image onto ECR. In this post, we will setup an ECS applicatio...

I had done a post sometime back on Container basics and AWS . Here I will explore ECS - another Container offering from AWS

In the last post I used optimistic locking with the Version attribute provided by DynamoDBMapper. Here I am going to look at the pessimisti...

When I studies Databases in college, we learnt the concept of locks A database lock is used to “lock” some data in a database so that onl...

Post is a collection of interesting pointers on the working of Dynamo Db. I wanted to have them in a single place as a ready reference

I came across AWS's container solutions - EKS. But I realized that to move forward, I actually needed a primer on Containers. The post ...

In the previous post we setup an EC2 instance and tried to connect it using SSH: ssh -i ~/Desktop/test-burner-pair.pem ec2-54-237-224-25...

In the previous post , we setup an EC2 instance. I wanted to play around with the configurations available here.

Everything that can be written about EC2 has already been written. I however like to make my own short notes and will use this entry as my ...

In the last post, we setup tables and database for our s3 data on Athena and queries it through the AWS console. In this post, I will attem...

While doing a search for Dynamo Db get Item code, I came across several different code samples (obviously) and also realized a not so obvio...

In the previous post we setup a DAX client and tested the GetItem performance. This post will look at other DAX features

I have been going through use cases where some basic analytics needed to be run on structured logs generated by our system. The way I did i...

Amazon DynamoDb comes with its own cache layer DAX or DynamoDB Accelerator. In this post I am going to play around with this feature.

In the last 2 posts, I have been working on setting up API access to my Dynamo Table through API Gateway. The next step would be to deploy ...

In the last post, we setup a GET method for my table  through API Gateway. I wanted to go ahead and setup the other methods - DELETE, PUT, ...

My use case is very straight forward - I have a table and I want to expose CRUD operations on the table - GET, ADD, DELETE, UPDATE.