A Developer’s Guide to Amazon SimpleDB

Preface

This book is a detailed guide for using Amazon SimpleDB. Over the years that I have been using this web service, I have always tried to contribute back to the developer community. This primarily involved answering questions on the SimpleDB forums and on stackoverflow.com. What I saw over time was a general lack of resources and understanding about the practical, day-to-day use of the service. As a result, the same types of questions were being asked repeatedly, and the same misconceptions seemed to be held by many people.

At the time of this writing, there are no SimpleDB books available. My purpose in writing this book is to offer my experience and my opinion about getting the most from SimpleDB in a more structured and thorough format ...