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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)

Implementing latency-based routing

Many systems make the conscious decision not to run across multiple regions because it is simply not worth the additional effort and cost. This is completely understandable when running in an active-passive mode because the additional effort does not produce an easily visible benefit until there is a regional disruption. It is also understandable when running in active-active mode doubles the monthly runtime cost. Conversely, serverless cloud-native systems are easily deployed to multiple regions and the increase in cost is nominal since the cost of a given transaction volume is spread across the regions. This recipe demonstrates how to run an AWS API Gateway and Lambda-based service in multiple regions and leverage Route53 to route traffic across these active-active regions to minimize latency.

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