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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)

Third-party orchestration tools

In this section, we will learn and become versed in the concept of infrastructure provisioning and orchestration. We will be exploring a couple of tools, namely Chef and Ansible. Let's get started by following these steps:

  1. We will begin with getting introduced to Chef. You can visit the official website of Chef at https://www.chef.io/chef/:
  1. Chef has a very good set of tutorials for getting your hands dirty. These are organized in the form of mini 10 to 15 minute tutorials for easy consumption. Head over to https://learn.chef.io/ to access them:
  1. For getting started with infrastructure provisioning and orchestrating, you can refer to the Chef documentation here: https://docs.chef.io/. The page looks like this:
  1. You can refer to the AWS Driver Resources page in the documentation to understand how to interact with various AWS services...