Recently I worked a discovery piece of work where I had to add MS Orleans to an existing WebAPI application. MS Orleans supports different types of storage, including Azure Table, SQL server and DynamoDb. I wanted to use DynamoDb and what I found was there weren’t a lot of documentation on how to add MS … [Read more…]
In this post, I’m going to show how to insert, update or delete a single item from a nested collection property in DynamoDB. Let’s say we have a document like this. One way (somewhat obvious?) to update, insert or delete a particular book from this document is to retrieve the whole document, mutate the data … [Read more…]
In this previous post, I showed how to update a property in a nested object in DynamoDb. In that post, the property was a simple string. In this short post, I’m going to show how to update an object property. Let’s say our DynamoDB document looks like this We can use UpdateItemAsync to update only … [Read more…]
In my recent project, I needed to update a single value in a nested object for a document on DynamoDB. In other projects, I would update the nested object property and then Save the whole document using SaveAsync from IDynamoDBContext. However, in this project, it needs to update the document from another microservice and I … [Read more…]
We use AWS DynamoDb for a number of microservices for the current project at work. We have a DynamoDb table used for caching a certain type of entity similar to this. There can be multiple books in the table with the same reference, but there can only be ONE active book per reference at a … [Read more…]