Domain Specific Languages

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If you have done any DevOps work on Amazon Web Services (AWS) then you should be familiar with Amazon CloudWatch, a service for tracking and viewing metrics (CPU, network in/out, etc.) about the various AWS services that you…

I was really glad to find a couple of days to work on some of my open source projects and put together a new version of DynamoDB.SQL which brings it inline with the latest version of the .Net AWSSDK amongst other things. You…

A couple of weeks earlier, Amazon announced support for Local Secondary Indexes (LSI) for DynamoDB. You can now perform fast, efficient queries against DynamoDB tables using attributes that are not part of the existing Hash and Range…

Just a quick note to say that another minor update to DynamoDB.SQL has been release, you can view the release notes here.

The latest update adds support for a TSQL style WITH keyword for specifying optional parameters for tweaking the…

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL and released version 1.0.7 of the library to Nuget, here’s a list of the changes:

• fixed a bug with LIMIT when there is insufficient number of elements using the…

Just a quick note to say that I have made some minor changes to DynamoDb.SQL to:

• Add support for specifying the ScanIndexForward option(see DynamoDB API doc here for detail) in a Query operation using an optional “ORDER” clause

Amazon’s DynamoDB is a wonderful product — scalable, durable, fast, with predictable latency numbers unlike SimpleDB. However, the only gripe I have with DynamoDB is that there is no built-in support for a query language, which…

Just finished watching an interesting seminar video by the guys from Object Mentor (a consultant company founded by Robert C Martin, the father of agile development) at:

A Domain Specific Language (DSL) is a programming language that’s dedicated to a particular problem domain. DSLs are often used to support domain-drive design and modelling. It’s the opposite of general purpose programming languages such as C#…