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Mastering AWS Lambda

By : Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta
Book Image

Mastering AWS Lambda

By: Yohan Wadia, Udita Gupta

Overview of this book

AWS is recognized as one of the biggest market leaders for cloud computing and why not? It has evolved a lot since the time it started out by providing just basic services such as EC2 and S3 and today; they go all the way from IoT to Machine Learning, Image recognition, Chatbot Frameworks, and much more! One of those recent services that is also gaining a lot of traction is AWS Lambda! Although seemingly simple and easy to use, Lambda is a highly effective and scalable compute service that provides developers with a powerful platform to design and develop Serverless event-driven systems and applications. The book begins with a high-level introduction into the world of Serverless computing and its advantages and use cases, followed by a deep dive into AWS Lambda! You’ll learn what services AWS Lambda provides to developers; how to design, write, and test Lambda functions; as well as monitor and troubleshoot them. The book is designed and accompanied with a vast variety of real-world examples, use cases, and code samples that will enable you to get started on your Serverless applications quickly. By the end of the book, you will have gained all the skills required to work with AWS Lambda services!
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

With this, we come to yet another chapter's completion. Here's a quick round up of all the things covered in this chapter so far. We first started out by looking at how you can effectively monitor Lambda functions using CloudWatch metrics and graphs. Later, we also explored the newest performance monitoring service on the block: AWS X-Ray. We learnt a few simple terms and terminologies used by X-Ray and then enabled X-Ray monitoring for a custom serverless application as well. Towards the end, we looked at two really awesome monitoring and logging third-party services in the form of Datadog and Loggly and how you can effectively use both of them for your requirements. And finally, topped it all off with some keen and useful best practices and handy recommendations.

In the next chapter, we will be exploring yet another extremely useful and upcoming framework for...