This week, I worked on practicing for the design review presentation, setting up dynamoDB, and writing a draft for Design Review Report.
For design review presentation, there was a lot to cover within each slides so I had a hard time coming up with a script that fits within 12 minutes. In fact, I feel like I spoke a bit too fast while the presentation. However, looking back at the peer review, I figured out that most of our classmates were happy with what we covered within the presentation, so that was a relief.
For setting up DynamoDB, it was a more complicated task and took more time than I expected. There was multiple ways to set up DynamoDB and AWS official document was sometimes really unhelpful. I over-spent some of my time researching for other documentations. I was eventually able to set up my database locally and had sample code running. However, there’s a way of using NoSQL locally with AWS and I think this is an easier way to visualize our database so I might go with this route next week.
I also spent some time coming up with a draft for Design Review Report by writing Architecture and/or Principle of Operation section.
I think I am still on track for the schedule but also realized that the setup for AWS components may take a while. Next week, I will continue working on linking DynamoDB to our web application. I will also a draft Design Trade Studies for web application component so that we can talk together about this on Monday.