A beginner view of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

Caching is one of the most important aspects of building a highly scalable solution. At its core, caching involves storing a subset of data in such a way that it's either easier to retrieve or faster to retrieve. Some popular caching techniques are HTTP caching, CDN caching, and solutions like Redis and ElastiCache. As a backend engineer, it's very highly likely that at some point we'll work on AWS DynamoDB. And if for some reason caching is required, we might think between one or two options: E