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Building Serverless Applications with Python

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Building Serverless Applications with Python

Overview of this book

Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without having to manage the infrastructure. Many companies have adopted this architecture to save cost and improve scalability. This book will help you design serverless architectures for your applications with AWS and Python. The book is divided into three modules. The first module explains the fundamentals of serverless architecture and how AWS lambda functions work. In the next module, you will learn to build, release, and deploy your application to production. You will also learn to log and test your application. In the third module, we will take you through advanced topics such as building a serverless API for your application. You will also learn to troubleshoot and monitor your app and master AWS lambda programming concepts with API references. Moving on, you will also learn how to scale up serverless applications and handle distributed serverless systems in production. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge required to build scalable and cost-efficient Python applications with a serverless framework.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

CloudWatch trigger

CloudWatch is the logging and monitoring service for AWS, where logs from most services get stored and monitored. In this section, we will learn how CloudWatch trigger works, how CloudWatch querying works in practice, configuring this in the Lambda function, and also how to make use of this knowledge to build a Lambda function.

So, in this section, we will do the following:

  1. Create a CloudWatch log
  2. Briefly understand how a CloudWatch log works
  3. Create a Lambda function that gets triggered by the CloudWatch trigger

This will help you understand and build resilient and stable serverless architectures.

The process flow for this is as follows:

  1. To create a CloudWatch Logs group, click on the Logs option to the left of the CloudWatch console:
  1. Once you are on the AWS CloudWatch Logs page, you will see a list of log groups that are already present. The CloudWatch...