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Hands-On Serverless Computing

By : Kuldeep Chowhan
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Hands-On Serverless Computing

By: Kuldeep Chowhan

Overview of this book

Serverless applications and architectures are gaining momentum and are increasingly being used by companies of all sizes. Serverless software takes care of many problems that developers face when running systems and servers, such as fault tolerance, centralized logging, horizontal scalability, and deployments. You will learn how to harness serverless technology to rapidly reduce production time and minimize your costs, while still having the freedom to customize your code, without hindering functionality. Upon finishing the book, you will have the knowledge and resources to build your own serverless application hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and will have experienced the benefits of event-driven technology for yourself. This hands-on guide dives into the basis of serverless architectures and how to build them using Node.js as a programming language, Visual Studio Code for code editing, and Postman for quickly and securely developing applications without the hassle of configuring and maintaining infrastructure on three public cloud platforms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Technical requirements

To deploy and test the serverless app that we develop in this chapter, you will need an AWS account. You can create a Free Tier AWS account by visiting this link: https://aws.amazon.com/free/. The Free Tier offers 12 months' access to some of the most popular AWS services and indefinite access to some products. The AWS Free Tier includes 1 million AWS Lambda invocations per month for free, and 1 million Amazon API Gateway API calls per month for free, which is more than sufficient for testing the serverless apps that we will build as part of this chapter.