Logging operations in Amazon DynamoDB
We have already established that DynamoDB is a serverless NoSQL database engine. This service is proprietary to AWS, although you can get it as a Docker image here: https://hub.docker.com/r/amazon/dynamodb-local.
Important note
Docker is a containerization tool used to package applications, services, and operating systems to make deploying and running the same application in different operating systems much easier and faster.
The architecture of NoSQL databases is quite different from the relational database management system. For DynamoDB, AWS has abstracted a lot of the operational things that we should be worried about, so our focus on the metrics will be more on the database layer than the infrastructure running the database. In DynamoDB, one of the most critical metrics to watch out for is the database's read and write capacities. These determine the behavior and the availability of your DynamoDB tables. They are measured...