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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about the monitoring and the logging capabilities of AWS. We also learned about the available monitoring and logging tools inside the AWS environment. We have also learned how to monitor our Lambda functions and how to set up logging for our Lambda functions.

We have learned about the logging and monitoring practices that are followed by the industry and the various ways one can log statements in Python from inside of a Lambda function.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to scale up our serverless architectures to become distributed and to be able to handle massive workloads while still preserving the positives of a serverless setup.