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DynamoDB Cookbook

You're reading from   DynamoDB Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes to design Internet scalable web and mobile applications with Amazon DynamoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784393755
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanmay Deshpande Tanmay Deshpande
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Taking Your First Steps with DynamoDB FREE CHAPTER 2. Operating with DynamoDB Tables 3. Manipulating DynamoDB Items 4. Managing DynamoDB Indexes 5. Exploring Higher Level Programming Interfaces for DynamoDB 6. Securing DynamoDB 7. DynamoDB Best Practices 8. Integrating DynamoDB with other AWS Services 9. Developing Web Applications using DynamoDB 10. Developing Mobile Applications using DynamoDB Index

Using the AWS ElastiCache for frequently accessed items


In this recipe, we will do the same thing that we did in the previous recipe. The only thing that we will change is that we will use a cloud hosted distributed caching solution instead of saving it on the local standalone cache.

ElastiCache is a hosted caching solution provided by Amazon Web Services. We have two options to select which caching technology you will need. One option is Memcached, and another option is Redis. Depending upon your requirements, you can decide which one to use. Here are links that will help you with more information on the two options:

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, we will need to have an ElastiCache cluster launched. If you are not aware of how to do it, you can refer to

http://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/.

How to do it…

Here, I am using the Memcached cluster. You can choose the size of the instance as you wish. We will need a Memcached client to access...

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