NoSQL and Cloud Computing - an Introduction

• Understanding cloud computing
• Need for cloud computing
• Understanding relational databases
• Understanding NoSQL
• NoSQL stores in the cloud

Introduction to Amazon AWS

• Introduction to Amazon Web Services
• A look at the various AWS Services
• Understanding resource usage and pricing
• A walk-through of some of the AWS Services - EC2, S3, etc

Identity and Access Management

• IAM Concepts
  • AWS Account
  • User
  • Group
  • Role
  • Security credentials
  • Resource
  • Permissions
  • Policy

Monitoring AWS Services

• Debugging cloud related issues
• Monitoring the AWS Service Health Dashboard
• Using Cloudwatch for Monitoring
• Setting up your metrics
• Setting up notifications

Concepts

• CAP Theorem
• Where DynamoDB fits in CAP
• Eventual consistency
• Sloppy Quorum
• Consistent Hashing
• Vector clocks
• Merkle Trees
• Gossip protocol
• Comparison with stores like MongoDB

Tables

• Working with Tables
• Specifying primary key
  • Hash Primary Key
  • Hash and Range Primary Key
• Specifying read and write requirements for table
• Capacity Units
• Guidelines for working with tables
• Table best practices

Items

• Working with Items
• Conditional writes
• Guidlines for working with Items
• Item best practices

Query and Scan Operations

• Overview of Query and Scan
• Parallel Scan
• Guidelines for Query and Scan
• Query and Scan best practices

Local Secondary Indexes (LSI)

• Introduction to LSI
• Attribute projections
• Guidelines for creation of secondary indexes
• LSI best practices

DynamoDB Administration

• The DynamoDB console
  • Creating tables
  • Performing Queries
  • Setting up Alarms
  • Setting up access policies
• Working with DynamoDB from the command line
• Controlling Access
  • Setting up IAM Policies
• Setting up monitoring via Cloudwatch
  • DynamoDB related metrics
• Exporting/Importing data to S3 via EMR and Data Pipeline