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Building Serverless Architectures

By : Cagatay Gurturk
Book Image

Building Serverless Architectures

By: Cagatay Gurturk

Overview of this book

Over the past years, all kind of companies from start-ups to giant enterprises started their move to public cloud providers in order to save their costs and reduce the operation effort needed to keep their shops open. Now it is even possible to craft a complex software system consisting of many independent micro-functions that will run only when they are needed without needing to maintain individual servers. The focus of this book is to design serverless architectures, and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of this approach, along with decision factors to consider. You will learn how to design a serverless application, get to know that key points of services that serverless applications are based on, and known issues and solutions. The book addresses key challenges such as how to slice out the core functionality of the software to be distributed in different cloud services and cloud functions. It covers basic and advanced usage of these services, testing and securing the serverless software, automating deployment, and more. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with knowledge of new tools and techniques to keep up with this evolution in the IT industry.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

Congratulations! As promised, you built a fully working image upload and resize endpoint with an incredibly low amount of code. After that, we built a loosely coupled software component that is triggered via events in the cloud and executed operations.

Obviously, our software has room to improve. So far, we drew a reference architecture for our software, and it is now your task to fill in the missing parts and develop the software further. Quite often, it is not possible to cover all the features and configuration options the AWS offers. Actually, the platform is evolving so fast that if we had covered all aspects, everything would have become outdated in a short time. You should read the AWS documentation carefully to find out how to implement the architecture you have in your mind. There's definitely a way to do it.

Our journey does not end here. In the next chapter...