Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Here, you can see that we have EventId as resource 1234, and a startDate parameter formatted in the YYYYMMDD format."

A block of code is set as follows:

  "phoneNumbers": [
    {
      "type": "home",
      "number": "212 555-1234"
    },
    {

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

{
  "firstName": "John",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "age": 27,
  "address": {

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ cd /mnt/c/

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "In the DynamoDB navigation pane, choose Tables and choose user-visits."