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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

What are non-functional requirements?

The non-functional requirements of a system are the critical components of the system that are not actively seen by the end user. Some examples of non-functional requirements are as follows:

  • Logging: Every production system needs to have a robust logging solution backing it up. It provides insight on the status of the system and helps to track down production bugs when they occur.
  • Auditing: Compliance is fast becoming a non-negotiable requirement. Companies that are driving traffic online are aware of the requirements of laws and regulations like GDPR, PCI, DSS, HIPAA, and so on. One of the primary requirements of such compliance is to maintain an audit trail that provides insight into who changed the state of the system or the underlying infrastructure, and when and why it changed. It is crucial that systems have a non-invasive audit trail...