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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)

Applying Enterprise Patterns

Maybe it is possible to build projects with the Java language with a simple code organization, throwing some working code parts and having a just-works project at the end of the day. However, the Java culture is famous for more complicated code structures, abstraction of different layers, creating small, independently testable components, and gluing it all together. Maybe it is not the right name for that, but often, this approach reminds people of enterprise programming.

AWS Lambda functions might seem like small, independent functions and they really are. Our colleagues who write Lambda functions with other programming languages, such as Node.JS or Python, tend to put everything into simple functions, often ignoring code reusability and separation of concerns. It is very easy to find Lambda functions consisting of only a single file with all the...