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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

Chapter 10. Testing, Deploying, and Monitoring

We are approaching the end of this book, but we can't finish without discussing some aspects that are beyond coding a solution. We need to understand how you can test functions that run in an environment that you don't own, what is a good development workflow to deploy and deliver new versions of your solution, and, although we don't need to worry about servers when building a serverless project, we need to understand what is the minimal monitoring that we need to configure to provide a cost-efficient and reliable solution. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Testing a serverless solution
  • Defining how to handle the deployment and delivery of new versions
  • Monitoring errors, performance, and costs

After this chapter, you'll have completed the book and will be prepared to build your next solution with serverless components or enhance an existing one benefiting from the serverless concept.