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JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook

By : John Gilbert
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JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook

By: John Gilbert

Overview of this book

Cloud-native development is a modern approach to building and running applications that leverages the merits of the cloud computing model. With cloud-native development, teams can deliver faster and in a more lean and agile manner as compared to traditional approaches. This recipe-based guide provides quick solutions for your cloud-native applications. Beginning with a brief introduction, JavaScript Cloud-Native Development Cookbook guides you in building and deploying serverless, event-driven, cloud-native microservices on AWS with Node.js. You'll then move on to the fundamental patterns of developing autonomous cloud-native services and understand the tools and techniques involved in creating globally scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud-native applications. The book also covers multi-regional deployments and leveraging the edge of the cloud to maximize responsiveness, resilience, and elasticity. In the latter chapters you'll explore techniques for building fully automated, continuous deployment pipelines and gain insights into polyglot cloud-native development on popular cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply these skills to build powerful cloud-native solutions.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Implementing regional replication with DynamoDB

Timely replication of data across regions is important to facilitate a seamless user experience when a regional failover occurs. During normal execution, regional replication will occur in near real time. During a regional failure, it should be expected that data would replicate more slowly. We can think of this as protracted eventual consistency. Fortunately, our cloud-native systems are designed to be eventually consistent. This means they are tolerant of stale data, regardless of how long it takes to become consistent. This recipe shows how to create global tables to replicate DynamoDB tables across regions and discusses why we do not replicate event streams.

Getting ready

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