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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)

Utilizing cache-control

Autonomous, cloud-native services maintain their own materialized views and store this replicated data in highly-available and extremely performant cloud-native databases. When combined with the performance of an API Gateway and FaaS, it is typically unnecessary to add a traditional caching mechanism to achieve the desired performance for a user-facing, backend-for-frontend (BFF) service. That being said, this doesn't mean we shouldn't take advantage of the CDN, such as CloudFront, that is already wrapping a service. The following recipe will therefore show you how to utilize cache-control headers and leverage a CDN to improve performance for end users, as well as reduce the load on a service.

How to do it...

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