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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)

Monitoring, Logging, and Security

As every seasoned software engineer knows, when the development process of a software system ends, the operation efforts start. While we are developing our software, we need to pay maximum attention and once the software is in production, we should monitor the software carefully to detect problems and bottlenecks. Serverless applications are not any different and need to be monitored carefully as well.

Security is also another important aspect that we shouldn't need not to reiterate. Any security problem that our software might have, can cost money and reputation of our business.

In the last chapter, we will see some tools provided by AWS that help to monitor our software and mitigate issues. We will set up automated health checks that will constantly monitor the health of our serverless application, we will extend the topic of logging via...