Questions

1. Describe the similarities between AWS API Gateway + Lambda functions and an ExpressJS Server It handles a lot of the nitty grtitty in terms of making sure the event listeners line up. It acts as the routing for a site.
2. List the AWS Database offerings and talk about the pros and cons of each relational (SQL?), key-value, in-memory, document (mongo/dynamodb?), wide column, graph, time series, and ledger
3. What’s the difference between a FIFO and a standard queue? standard Queue for programming (what the V8 engine runs on) is a first in, last out
4. How can the server be assured a message was properly received? depending on the design you can have the server and client do a final handshake on reciept.

Vocab

Serverless API - api structure that is relatively platform agnostic Triggers - event to fire a lambda Dynamo vs Mongo - dynamo is the AWS cloud tuned versiuon of MongoDB Dynamoose vs Mongoose - similar relationship, this library has a lot of built in commands for the database for easier readability

Preview

Which 3 things had you heard about previously and now have better clarity on? database types, aurora, serverless

Which 3 things are you hoping to learn more about in the upcoming lecture/demo? some nitty gritty

What are you most excited about trying to implement or see how it works? see how much I remember from CRUD operations