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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Getting Started with Cloud-Native

Getting Started with Cloud-Native

Creating a stack

Creating a function and working with metrics and logs

Creating an event stream and publishing an event

Creating a stream processor

Creating an API Gateway

Deploying a single-page application

Applying the Event Sourcing and CQRS Patterns

Applying the Event Sourcing and CQRS Patterns

Creating a data lake

Applying the event-first variant of the Event Sourcing pattern

Creating a micro event store

Applying the database-first variant of the Event Sourcing pattern with DynamoDB

Applying the database-first variant of the Event Sourcing pattern with Cognito datasets

Creating a materialized view in DynamoDB

Creating a materialized view in S3

Creating a materialized view in Elasticsearch

Creating a materialized view in a Cognito dataset

Replaying events

Indexing the data lake

Implementing bi-directional synchronization

Implementing Autonomous Services

Implementing Autonomous Services

Implementing a GraphQL CRUD BFF

Implementing a search BFF

Implementing an analytics BFF

Implementing an inbound External Service Gateway

Implementing an outbound External Service Gateway

Orchestrating collaboration between services

Implementing a Saga

Leveraging the Edge of the Cloud

Leveraging the Edge of the Cloud

Serving a single-page application from a CDN

Associating a custom domain name with a CDN

Serving a website from the CDN

Deploying a service behind a CDN

Serving static JSON from a CDN

Triggering the invalidation of content in a CDN

Executing code at the edge of the cloud

Securing Cloud-Native Systems

Securing Cloud-Native Systems

Securing your cloud account

Creating a federated identity pool

Implementing sign up, sign in, and sign out

Securing an API Gateway with OpenID Connect

Implementing a custom authorizer

Authorizing a GraphQL-based service

Implementing a JWT filter

Using envelope encryption

Creating an SSL certificate for encryption in transit

Configuring a web application firewall

Replicating the data lake for disaster recovery

Building a Continuous Deployment Pipeline

Building a Continuous Deployment Pipeline

Creating the CI/CD pipeline

Writing unit tests

Writing integration tests

Writing contract tests for a synchronous API

Writing contract tests for an asynchronous API

Assembling transitive end-to-end tests

Leveraging feature flags

Optimizing Observability

Optimizing Observability

Monitoring a cloud-native system

Implementing custom metrics

Monitoring domain events

Creating alerts

Creating synthetic transaction tests

Designing for Failure

Designing for Failure

Employing proper timeouts and retries

Implementing backpressure and rate limiting

Handling faults

Resubmitting fault events

Implementing idempotence with an inverse OpLock

Implementing idempotence with Event Sourcing

Optimizing Performance

Optimizing Performance

Tuning Function as a Service

Batching requests

Leveraging asynchronous non-blocking IO

Grouping events in stream processors

Autoscaling DynamoDB

Utilizing cache-control

Leveraging session consistency

Deploying to Multiple Regions

Deploying to Multiple Regions

Implementing latency-based routing

Creating a regional health check

Triggering regional failover

Implementing regional replication with DynamoDB

Implementing round-robin replication

Welcoming Polycloud

Welcoming Polycloud

Creating a service with Google Cloud Functions

Creating a service with Azure Functions

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Introduction

The edge of the cloud is likely the single most underrated layer of cloud-native systems. However, as I have previously mentioned, my first cloud-native wow moment was when I realized I could run a single-page application (SPA) presentation layer from the edge without the complexity, risk, and cost of running an elastic load balancer and multiple EC2 instances. Furthermore, leveraging the edge brings global scale to certain aspects of cloud-native systems without expending additional effort on multi-regional deployments. Our end users enjoy reduced latency, while we reduce the load on the internals of our system, reduce cost, and increase security. The recipes in this chapter cover a multitude of ways we can leverage the edge of the cloud to advance the quality of our cloud-native system, with minimum effort.