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Canvas DynamoDB

gems/canvas_dynamodb/README.md

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Canvas DynamoDB

An opinionated way to talk to Dynamo tables.

Features

  • Query Logging : statements that get executed will get written to rails debug logs
  • Batch Operations: Useful helper methods for building batched read/write queries.
  • Table Naming Conventions: using prefixes and semantic names.

Intentional Omissions!

We don't want to manage the tables themselves. A DynamoDB table is more like a database than a schema change. It should be managed in terraform and scaled by devops tooling.