Kirill Zonov

Recent Posts

February 10, 2018

Developing a database. Part 1. Why may you need indexes and how does Hash index work.

I plan to write a series of posts about databases internals. In order to make it easily perceivable, I'll be writing a NoSQL DB from scratch in Ruby. No doubts that it's not the best fit for database development, but it's extremely readable and will help us a lot. This one will be about why may you want to have an index and what is a Hash index.

December 16, 2017

Building an Amazon Lambda function to write to the DynamoDB

In this post, we will create a Lambda function which can write to the Amazon DynamoDB table. For this, we will create a table, modify existing function and set up IAM roles. Log in to your AWS account and let's get started!

December 12, 2017

Amazon DynamoDB introduction

This post is the second one in series about Amazon Web Services first steps howtos. I believe that traditional guides like AWS Certification preparation and Linux Academy don't give the information in proper order, so here I give it in the format and the way how I give it to my colleagues at Babbel.