Building for Performance and Reliability with Amazon SimpleDB What programming techniques should you use when building an application on top of Amazon SimpleDB? How can you achieve the best throughput and performance? How should you partition data among multiple domains? These topics and more are covered in this article, to help you on your way to building great applications using Amazon SimpleDB.

Special Attributes AWS SDB Proxy handles a couple of special attributes transparently. Here is the complete list: id: Every record automatically gets assigned a unique id using a hash function (see below) _resource: This attribute will always hold the name of the Rails model the item belongs to. This way AWS SDB Proxy can story multiple Rails models within one SimpleDB domain created_at: The t

Amazon SimpleDB is a useful way to store and retrieve metadata. This tutorial walks you through a sample product catalog application built using Ruby on Rails. AWS Products Used: By Robert Dempsey of Atlantic Dominion Solutions, LLC This tutorial assumes a basic understanding of Ruby on Rails and that you have signed up for the Amazon SimpleDB service. You'll be using Ruby version 1.8.7 and Ra