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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

By : Hardik Trivedi, Ameya Kulkarni
Book Image

Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

By: Hardik Trivedi, Ameya Kulkarni

Overview of this book

Serverless is a cloud computing execution model where the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation and provisioning of servers. Many companies now use serverless architectures to cut costs and improve scalability. Thanks to its concise and expressive syntax and a smooth learning curve, Kotlin is a great fit for developing serverless applications. With this book, you’ll be able to put your knowledge to work by implementing serverless technology in your applications and become productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanation of essential concepts and examples, this book will help you understand the serverless architecture fundamentals and how to design serverless architectures for your applications. You’ll also explore how AWS Lambda functions work. The book will guide you in designing, building, securing, and deploying your application to production, along with implementing non-functional requirements such as auditing and logging. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to scale up and orchestrate serverless applications using an open source framework and handle distributed serverless systems in production. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build scalable and cost-efficient Kotlin applications with a serverless framework.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Designing a Kotlin Serverless Application

Summary

Wow! I am sure, like me, you are amazed to see how Kotlin can easily do the job. Writing lambda functions has never been so much fun. Kotlin's features greatly help to reduce the code. Not only does it reduce the code, it also gives a great readability to the code.

We saw how we can write lambda functions in Kotlin. We also deployed them in the form of fat JAR onto the console.

Using a jOOQ plugin was fun too. It reduced a lot of boilerplate code.

In the next chapter, we are going to take a deep dive into a service provider called Firebase. Let's see what Firebase is all about!