DynamoDB Applied Design Patterns

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Therefore, during the creation of the Tbl_Book table in DynamoDB, we will specify only the BookTitle and Author attributes."

A block of code is set as follows:

aws dynamodb create-table --table-name Tbl_Book --attribute-definitions AttributeName=BookTitle,AttributeType=S AttributeName=Author,AttributeType=S --key-schema AttributeName=BookTitle,KeyType=HASH AttributeName=Author,KeyType=RANGE ...