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Cloud Native Programming with Golang

You're reading from   Cloud Native Programming with Golang Develop microservice-based high performance web apps for the cloud with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125988
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Martin Helmich Martin Helmich
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Preface 1. Modern Microservice Architectures 2. Building Microservices Using Rest APIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Securing Microservices 4. Asynchronous Microservice Architectures Using Message Queues 5. Building a Frontend with React 6. Deploying Your Application in Containers 7. AWS I – Fundamentals, AWS SDK for Go, and EC2 8. AWS II–S3, SQS, API Gateway, and DynamoDB 9. Continuous Delivery 10. Monitoring Your Application 11. Migration 12. Where to Go from Here?

DynamoDB 


DynamoDB is a very important part of the AWS ecosystem; it typically serves as the backend database for numerous cloud native applications. DynamoDB is a distributed high-performance database hosted in the cloud, which is offered as a service by AWS. 

DynamoDB components

Before we discuss how to write code that can interact with DynamoDB, we will need to first cover some important concepts regarding the database. DynamoDB consists of the following components:

  • Tables: Like a typical database engine, DynamoDB stores data in a collection of tables. For example, in our MyEvents application, we can have an events table that would store events information such as concert names and start dates. Similarly, we can also have a bookings table to host booking information for our users. We can also have a users table to store our users information.
  • Items: Items are nothing more than the rows of the DynamoDB tables. Information inside an item is known as attributes. If we take the events table...
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