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It goes without saying for every driver that if a strange noise occurs, the reason must be identified. The standard procedure is to go to the garage to identify the cause of the fault. Although this costs a certain fee, the damage to be expected without an inspection may far exceed such a financial outlay. This is a typical instance of predictive maintenance, a sub-area of predictive analytics: preventing damage before it has a full impact. In industry, the principle is the same, only on a larger scale where thousands - if not millions - of devices produce immense amounts of data.

AWS DynamoDB is a high-performance NoSQL database service designed to serve as a key-value store. As a fully managed, serverless service, DynamoDB offers a fast, flexible and cost-effective way to store and retrieve data in the cloud. In this blog post, I take a deep dive into the main features, design patterns and best practices relating to DynamoDB.

Clouds are changing the way we run and develop software. Many of the limitations that used to exist are no longer an issue when we embrace cloud-native approaches. This, together with new influencing factors such as costs, has an impact on our software architectures. In my blog post, I will explain what new services the cloud provides.