Day 3: Building an “Internet of Things” System Around DynamoDB

On Day 2, we delved into DynamoDB‘s streaming feature and turned our DynamoDB database from a fairly standard cloud storage mechanism into a much more dynamic processing system consisting of a Kinesis-Lambda-DynamoDB system. What we didn’t do on Day 2 was provide any data inputs beyond some CLI test runs. On Day 3, we’ll provide some “Internet of Things”-style data from mock sensors.

The term “Internet of Things” (aka IoT) is kind of like “Big Data” or “the Cloud.” Its use is controversial because there’s a lot of buzz surrounding it, and what it points to isn’t so much something that already exists as much as it is a set of emerging technological possibilities. The “things” in ...

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