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## DynamoDB Design: Reference Materials

DynamoDB Data Model Design:
- **[Working with Queries in DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Query.html)**
- **[Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yqfmXiZTlM&list=PL_EDAAla3DXWy4GW_gnmaIs0PFvEklEB7)**
- **[DynamoDB Best Practices for Designing and Architecting with DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/best-practices.html)**
- **[Best Practices for Using Sort Keys to Organize Data](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/bp-sort-keys.html)**
- **[Using Global Secondary Indexes in DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GSI.html)**
- **[Best Practices for Managing Many-to-Many Relationships](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/bp-adjacency-graphs.html)**

Understanding Distributed Systems and DynamoDB:
- **[Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvBR71D0nAQ)**
- **[Amazon DynamoDB: How It Works](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.html)**

DynamoDB Related Tools:
- **[NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/workbench.html)**
- **[EMR-DynamoDB-Connector: Access data stored in Amazon DynamoDB with Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, and Apache Spark](https://github.com/awslabs/emr-dynamodb-connector)**

Online Training Courses:
- **[A Cloud Guru: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive](https://acloudguru.com/course/amazon-dynamodb-deep-dive/)**
- **[A Cloud Guru: Amazon DynamoDB Data Modeling](https://acloudguru.com/course/amazon-dynamodb-data-modeling/)**
- **[edX: Amazon DynamoDB: Building NoSQL Database-Driven Applications](https://www.edx.org/course/amazon-dynamodb-building-nosql-database-driven-app)**