Terraform

$ terraform
Usage: terraform [--version] [--help] <command> [args]

The available commands for execution are listed below.
The most common, useful commands are shown first, followed by
less common or more advanced commands. If you're just getting
started with Terraform, stick with the common commands. For the
other commands, please read the help and docs before usage.

Common commands:
    apply              Builds or changes infrastructure
    console            Interactive console for Terraform interpolations
    destroy            Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure
    fmt                Rewrites config files to canonical format
    get                Download and install modules for the configuration
    graph              Create a visual graph of Terraform resources
    import             Import existing infrastructure into Terraform
    init               Initialize a new or existing Terraform configuration
    output             Read an output from a state file
    plan               Generate and show an execution plan
    providers          Prints a tree of the providers used in the configuration
    push               Upload this Terraform module to Terraform Enterprise to run
    refresh            Update local state file against real resources
    show               Inspect Terraform state or plan
    taint              Manually mark a resource for recreation
    untaint            Manually unmark a resource as tainted
    validate           Validates the Terraform files
    version            Prints the Terraform version
    workspace          Workspace management

All other commands:
    debug              Debug output management (experimental)
    force-unlock       Manually unlock the terraform state
    state              Advanced state management

AWS X-Ray SDK

Installing

The AWS X-Ray SDK for Node.js is compatible with Node.js version 4 and later. The AWS X-Ray SDK for Node.js has been tested with versions 4.x through 12.x of Node.js. There may be issues when running on versions of Node.js newer than 12.x.

The SDK is available from NPM. For local development, install the SDK in your project directory with npm.

npm install aws-xray-sdk

Use the --save option to save the SDK as a dependency in your application's package.json.

npm install aws-xray-sdk --save

DynamoDB Partitions links

1) Partitions and Data Distribution: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.Partitions.html

2) DynamoDB streams: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Streams.html

3) DynamoDB streams Boto3: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/dynamodbstreams.html

4) Queries with DynamoDB: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Query.html 

Kafka vs AWS Kinesis

		Apache Kafka	Amazon Kinesis
	Developed/Hosted By	LinkedIn	Amazon
	Software	Open-Source	Proprietary
	SDK Support	AWS SDK supports Android, Java, Go, .NET	Kafka SDK supports Java
	Configuration & Features	More control on configuration and better performance.	Number of days/shards can only be configured
	Data Stored In	Kafka Partition	Kinesis Shard
	Reliability	Replication factor can be configured	Kinesis writes synchronously to 3 different machines/data-centers
	Performance	Kafka wins	Kinesis writes each message synchronously to 3 different machines
	Configuration Store	Apache Zookeeper	Amazon DynamoDB
	Setup	Weeks	Couple Of hours
	Data Retention	Configurable	7 days at max
	Log Compaction	Supported	Only can store logs for 7 days
	Processing Events	More than 1000s of events/sec	Atmost 1000s of events/sec
	Checkpointing	Offsets stored in special topic	DynamoDB
	Ordering	Partion level	Shard level
	Human Costs	Require human support for installing and managing their clusters, and also accounting for requirements such as high availability, durability, and recovery	Kinesis is just about pay and use
	Producer Throughput	Kafka Wins	Kinesis is bit slower than Kafka
	Incident Risk/Maintainence	More In Kafka	Amazon takes care
	Ordered sequence of immutable data records	Kafka Topic	Kinesis Stream
	Each record has a unique number called	Offset number	Sequence number
	Concepts	Kafka Streams	Kinesis Analytics