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Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Brian Zambrano
Book Image

Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices

By: Brian Zambrano

Overview of this book

Serverless applications handle many problems that developers face when running systems and servers. The serverless pay-per-invocation model can also result in drastic cost savings, contributing to its popularity. While it's simple to create a basic serverless application, it's critical to structure your software correctly to ensure it continues to succeed as it grows. Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices presents patterns that can be adapted to run in a serverless environment. You will learn how to develop applications that are scalable, fault tolerant, and well-tested. The book begins with an introduction to the different design pattern categories available for serverless applications. You will learn thetrade-offs between GraphQL and REST and how they fare regarding overall application design in a serverless ecosystem. The book will also show you how to migrate an existing API to a serverless backend using AWS API Gateway. You will learn how to build event-driven applications using queuing and streaming systems, such as AWS Simple Queuing Service (SQS) and AWS Kinesis. Patterns for data-intensive serverless application are also explained, including the lambda architecture and MapReduce. This book will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to develop scalable and resilient serverless applications confidently.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Appendix 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

If you enjoyed this book, you may be interested in these other books by Packt:

Building Serverless Architectures Cagatay Gurturk

ISBN: 978-1-78712-919-1

  • Learn to form microservices from bigger Softwares
  • Orchestrate and scale microservices
  • Design and set up the data flow between cloud services and custom business logic
  • Get to grips with cloud provider’s APIs, limitations, and known issues
  • Migrate existing Java applications to a serverless architecture
  • Acquire deployment strategies
  • Build a highly available and scalable data persistence layer
  • Unravel cost optimization techniques

Building Serverless Web Applications Diego Zanon

ISBN: 978-1-78712-647-3

  • Get a grasp of the pros and cons of going serverless and its use cases
  • Discover how you can use the building blocks of AWS to your advantage
  • Set up the environment and create a basic app with the Serverless Framework
  • Host static files on S3 and CloudFront with HTTPS support
  • Build a sample application with a frontend using React as an SPA
  • Develop the Node.js backend to handle requests and connect to a SimpleDB database
  • Secure your applications with authentication and authorization
  • Implement the publish-subscribe pattern to handle notifications in a serverless application
  • Create tests, define the workflow for deployment, and monitor your app