Vyas Uchit - DynamoDB applied design patterns apply efficient DynamoDB design patterns for high performance of applications

Uchit Vyas is an open source specialist and a hands-on Lead DevOps of Clogeny Technologies. He is responsible for the delivery of solutions, services, and product development. He explores new open source technologies and defines architecture, roadmaps, and best practices for enterprises. He has consulted and provided training on various open source technologies, including Cloud computing (AWS Cloud, Rackspace, Azure, CloudStack, OpenStack, and Eucalyptus), Mule ESB, Chef, Puppet, Liferay Portal, Alfresco ECM, and JBoss to corporations around the world.

He has an engineering degree in Computer Science from Gujarat University. He was in the Education & Research Team as a senior associate at Infosys Limited, during which time he worked on SaaS, Private Clouds, Cloud Security, and Virtualization. He is now working on Cloud Automation.

He has also published a book on Mule ESB and is writing various books with Packt Publishing on open source technologies and AWS ( Mastering AWS Development Guide , Packt Publishing ).

He hosts a blog named Cloud Magic World (cloudbyuchit.blogspot.com), where he posts tips and phenomena about open source technologies, mostly relating to Cloud. He can also be found on twitter as @uchit_vyas.

I would like to thank my better half for helping me a lot in writing this book and providing me with continuous support all the time throughout the book-writing period. I would also like to thank my Infocian colleague, Prabhakaran Kuppusamy, for his great help.

Prabhakaran Kuppusamy is a Hadoop ecosystem specialist and Cloud enthusiast who is currently working as Senior Systems Engineer and developer, Cloud & Infrastructure Services unit, at Infosys Limited. He has been with Infosys for nearly 4 years now. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Anna University. He joined Education & Research at Global Education Centre, Infosys, where he trained and evaluated thousands of freshers in Java, Big Data, and Cloud technologies. During his tenure in Education & Research, he provided training to students from Coventry University and to professionals from Costa Rica on Big Data and Cloud technologies, such as Hadoop, MapReduce, Hive, Elastic MapReduce, Google App Engine, DynamoDB, and CloudStack. It was during one of those training sessions that he met Uchit Vyas, and the idea of this book was born. After spending 2 years at the Global Education Centre, he moved to Cloud project management, where he started working on MarkLogic, Storm, and XQuery for a project on the banking domain. He can be found on Twitter at @prabhakar28dec.

Prabhakaran is currently working on the book AWS Development Essentials , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank my mentors Sureesh Joseph, Bharathykannan Udhayasuriyan, Uchit Vyas, Bhupendra Bajpayi, and Ravindran Balachandran. Thanks for shepherding me personally and technically, by spending your time and goodwill in helping me spend valuable time on my maiden book and to bring the book out in good shape. Special thanks to Kshitiz Jain, my manager and friend, who has always been there to help me choose what suits me the best and helped me scale up in DynamoDB.

Hrijul Parekh has a B.Eng. degree in Information Technology with a research interest in Cloud and infrastructure automation. He is always enthusiastic to work on multiple platforms at a time and has the ability to integrate open source technologies. He is a Cloud Engineer at PMC Retail Pvt. Ltd.

With over 3 years of hands-on experience in open source technologies, he manages to guide the team and deliver projects and training sessions, meeting client expectations all along. He's responsible for designing and managing a Cloud environment/infrastructure and server architecture in his organization. He is also active in Shell scripting, autodeployment, supporting hundreds of Linux and Windows physical and virtual servers hosting databases, and applications with continuous delivery using Jenkins/Hudson with Chef scripting.

I would like to thank my family for supporting me to achieve my dreams.

Akshay Surve is in the pursuit of making meaning through his initiatives, be it for profit or for the good of society. At heart, he is a midnight code junkie and occasionally dabbles with prose.

He is also the cofounder and CTO at DeltaX, where he drives the technology and product roadmap. His expertise in Cloud computing and building web-scale distributed systems, coupled with a deep understanding of the ad-tech ecosystem over the last 8 years, has been one of the key drivers of the rapid pace of development of DeltaX's product line.

You can connect with him on Twitter. His Twitter handle is @AkshaySurve.

Riddhi Thaker has more than 4 years of software engineering experience in software design, analysis, development, testing, and implementation of web and client-server large-scale applications, as well as customized desktop applications based on Microsoft technologies and AWS infrastructure. She has extensive experience in design and development of applications using .NET and web technologies, such as XML, CSS, CSS3, Ajax, JavaScript, jQuery, UI designing, HTML, and HTML5 in n -tier architecture across platforms and even Cloud platforms.