Unit testing DynamoDB Enhanced DAOs with DynamoDB Local in AWS SDK for Java 2.x

It can be frustrating when AWS puts out statements like “Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x”, but provides no information on how to use it, or what that even means. This article will show how to use DynamoDb Local with the new DynamoDbEnhanced clients in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The DynamoDB enhanced client is a high-level library that is part of the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. It offers a straightforward way to map client-side classes to DynamoDB tables. If you’re familiar with DynamoDbMapper from v1 of the SDK, this is basically the same thing, but in v2. ...

September 24, 2023

Who have I had the most college classes with?

Most students think about this question at the beginning of a semester. They might ask their friends about the classes they’re taking, and they’ll probably notice a few people who they share a bunch of classes with. However, I wanted to know the answer to this question definitively, so I decided to scrape my school’s coursesite (similar to blackboard) using selenium. Firstly, a bit about me: I’m currently a Junior at Lehigh University where I’m studying Computer Science & Engineering. My Fall 2019 Schedule was packed with the hard hitting classes which are to be expected as a Junior in CSE. ...

January 30, 2020