Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
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Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#2Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days.
The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0].
Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable).
[0] - https://twitter.com/houlihan_rick/status/1247522640278859777
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#3Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
After seeing Rick's Re:invent talk, the one where at about minute 40 everyones' heads exploded, I emailed him (I'm in a very far away other department of Amazon) to ask him for more, because everything he was saying was absolutely not the way my group was using DynamoDB (ie: we were doing it wrong).
He could have ignored my email entirely. He's a busy guy, right? I wouldn't have held it against him at all. Instead, he was super nice, provided me with more documentation, and honestly was just really helpful.
If he recommends your book, I'm buying it.
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#4Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
After seeing Rick's Re:invent talk, the one where at about minute 40 everyones' heads exploded, I emailed him (I'm in a very far away other department of Amazon) to ask him for more, because everything he was saying was absolutely not the way my group was using DynamoDB (ie: we were doing it wrong). He could have ignored my email entirely. He's a busy guy, right? I wouldn't have held it against him at all. Instead, h…
Link please?
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
After seeing Rick's Re:invent talk, the one where at about minute 40 everyones' heads exploded, I emailed him (I'm in a very far away other department of Amazon) to ask him for more, because everything he was saying was absolutely not the way my group was using DynamoDB (ie: we were doing it wrong). He could have ignored my email entirely. He's a busy guy, right? I wouldn't have held it against him at all. Instead, h…
Link please?
Rick has had the most-watched re:Invent talk the last three years.
Here are the links for each:
- 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqfmXiZTlM
- 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaEPXoXVf2k
- 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzeKPKpucS0
Additional DynamoDB links here: https://github.com/alexdebrie/awesome-dynamodb
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#6Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
After seeing Rick's Re:invent talk, the one where at about minute 40 everyones' heads exploded, I emailed him (I'm in a very far away other department of Amazon) to ask him for more, because everything he was saying was absolutely not the way my group was using DynamoDB (ie: we were doing it wrong). He could have ignored my email entirely. He's a busy guy, right? I wouldn't have held it against him at all. Instead, h…
Thanks! Yea, Rick is awesome and really helpful. He wrote the foreword to the book as well :)
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#7Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
I wonder if you might talk a bit about what more is in the book than already publicly available in the awesome-dynamodb roundup?
If someone had already successfully using dynamodb in production for a year or two what would be the main value of your course?
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#8Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
How much of the book is directly applicable to Cassandra? I understand that Apache Cassandra is regarded as the “open-source” version of DynamoDB?
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#9Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
I wonder if you might talk a bit about what more is in the book than already publicly available in the awesome-dynamodb roundup? If someone had already successfully using dynamodb in production for a year or two what would be the main value of your course?
If you want a look at the Table of Contents, check it out here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/dynamodb-book/table-of-contents.pdf
For a third-party breakdown of the book structure and content, check out Shawn Wang's review here: https://www.swyx.io/writing/dynamodb-book/
Shawn lists a four-part breakdown that's pretty on-point:
- Background and basics (Chapters 1-6)
- General advice for modeling & implementation (Chapters 7-9)
- DynamoDB strategies, such as how to handle one-to-many relationships, many-to-many relationships, complex filtering, migrations, etc. (Chapters 10-16).
- Five full walkthrough examples, including some pretty complex ones. One of them implements most of the GitHub metadata backend. Nothing related to the git contents specifically but everything around Repos, Issues, PRs, Stars, Forks, Users, Orgs, etc.
The first nine chapters you can probably find available if you google around enough. It's helpful to have all in one place. But the last 13 chapters are unlike anything else available, if I do say so myself. Super in-depth stuff.
I think it will be helpful even if you've been using it for a while, but it really depends on how deep you went on DynamoDB.
Re: Rules for Data Modeling with DynamoDB
#10Author here! If you want more, I just released a book on DynamoDB yesterday --> https://www.dynamodbbook.com/ . There's a launch discount for the next few days. The book is highly recommended by folks at AWS, including Rick Houlihan, the leader of the NoSQL Blackbelt Team at AWS[0]. Happy to answer any questions you have! Also available on Twitter and via email (I'm easily findable). [0] - https://twitter.com/houliha…
How much of the book is directly applicable to Cassandra? I understand that Apache Cassandra is regarded as the “open-source” version of DynamoDB?
The concepts are definitely applicable. You'll need to do some small work to translate vocabulary and work around a slightly different feature set, but most of it should work for you.
And yep, Cassandra is pretty similar to DynamoDB. Both are wide-column data stores. Some of the original folks that worked on Dynamo (not DynamoDB) at Amazon.com went to Facebook and worked on Cassandra. The concepts underlying Dynamo because the basis for DynamoDB at AWS.
For more background on Dynamo, check out The Dynamo Paper: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sos...