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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

Advanced AWS Services

The last eight chapters gave us a good insight into what Serverless architectures are and how they can be designed, developed, secured, and scaled on a mature cloud provider, such as AWS. We also saw how a third-party orchestration tool such as the Serverless Framework can be used to provision these Serverless architectures. It is obvious by now that AWS is more than just a cloud provider. It offers various services that can be used by the developer to create solutions delivering newer experiences to the end user. AWS keeps on adding new offerings to their already vast repertoire, and strives not only to better the quality of the user experience but also to enrich the developer's experience when creating them.

In this chapter, we will have a look at the following:

  • AWS Cloud9
  • AWS Alexa

We will also walk through the creation of a simple Alexa skill that...