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Building Serverless Web Applications

By : Diego Zanon
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Building Serverless Web Applications

By: Diego Zanon

Overview of this book

This book will equip you with the knowledge needed to build your own serverless apps by showing you how to set up different services while making your application scalable, highly available, and efficient. We begin by giving you an idea of what it means to go serverless, exploring the pros and cons of the serverless model and its use cases. Next, you will be introduced to the AWS services that will be used throughout the book, how to estimate costs, and how to set up and use the Serverless Framework. From here, you will start to build an entire serverless project of an online store, beginning with a React SPA frontend hosted on AWS followed by a serverless backend with API Gateway and Lambda functions. You will also learn to access data from a SimpleDB database, secure the application with authentication and authorization, and implement serverless notifications for browsers using AWS IoT. This book will describe how to monitor the performance, efficiency, and errors of your apps and conclude by teaching you how to test and deploy your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Supporting HTTPS


Unfortunately, Amazon S3 does not support HTTPS connections, it only supports HTTP. We have set the Route 53 record sets to use a CloudFront distribution, but we haven't enabled support to HTTPS in CloudFront yet.

But why should we support HTTPS? There are many reasons nowadays. Let's list some of them:

  • We are building an online store. We need to handle logins and payment transactions. Doing such things without an encrypted connection is not safe. It's too easy to eavesdrop the network and steal sensitive data.
  • HTTP/2 is the newest protocol and is much faster than the old HTTP/1.1 version. Currently, all major browsers that support HTTP/2 require HTTPS. It is not possible to support HTTP/2 over an unencrypted HTTP connection.
  • HTTP/2 with encryption is faster than HTTP/1.1 without encryption. Troy Hunt shows an interesting demo at this link: https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed-advantage. In his test, loading a website with hundreds of small files was...