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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 this book covers

Chapter 1, Basics of Serverless, will enable you to understand serverless architectures, along with how to recognize them. You will gain insights into serverless applications by comparing them with traditional architectures. Lastly, you will have a brief overview of the Serverless ecosystem, consisting of providers and tooling.

Chapter 2, AWS Serverless Offerings, will introduce the concepts of AWS lambda and explain the concepts, intuition, and the components involved in the tool. It also explains the nuances involved in security, user controls, and versioning code inside AWS lambda.

Chapter 3, Designing a Kotlin Serverless Application, will analyze a case study of a serverless application entirely using Kotlin.

Chapter 4, Developing Your Serverless Application, will develop your serverless application using Kotlin and AWS by analyzing a case study.

Chapter 5, Improve Your App with Firebase Service, will improve your application using Firebase services.

Chapter 6, Analyzing Your Application, will cover how to log the important events of your application and best practices for logging your application behavior using AWS.

Chapter 7, Secure Your Application, will cover the hardening of your Kotlin AWS serverless application and best practices for granting secure access to your application.

Chapter 8, Scale Your Application, will discuss the practice of scaling up serverless architectures for large workloads using a number of third-party tools.

Chapter 9, Advanced AWS Services, will leverage advanced AWS services to extend the functionality of the application.