Book Image

Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

By : Mohamed Labouardy
Book Image

Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

By: Mohamed Labouardy

Overview of this book

Serverless architecture is popular in the tech community due to AWS Lambda. Go is simple to learn, straightforward to work with, and easy to read for other developers; and now it's been heralded as a supported language for AWS Lambda. This book is your optimal guide to designing a Go serverless application and deploying it to Lambda. This book starts with a quick introduction to the world of serverless architecture and its benefits, and then delves into AWS Lambda using practical examples. You'll then learn how to design and build a production-ready application in Go using AWS serverless services with zero upfront infrastructure investment. The book will help you learn how to scale up serverless applications and handle distributed serverless systems in production. You will also learn how to log and test your application. Along the way, you'll also discover how to set up a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment process of your Lambda functions. Moreover, you'll learn how to troubleshoot and monitor your apps in near real-time with services such as AWS CloudWatch and X-ray. This book will also teach you how to secure the access with AWS Cognito. By the end of this book, you will have mastered designing, building, and deploying a Go serverless application.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Logging AWS Lambda API calls with CloudTrail

Capturing all calls made by your Lambda functions is important for auditing, security, and compliance. It gives you a global overview of the AWS services they interact with. One service that leverages this feature is CloudTrail.

CloudTrail records API calls made by your Lambda functions. It's straightforward and easy to use. All you need to do is navigate to CloudTrail from the AWS Management Console and filter events by the event source, which should be lambda.amazonaws.com.

There, you should have all of the calls that have been made by each Lambda function, as shown in the following screenshot:

In addition to exposing event history, you can create a trail in each AWS region to record your Lambda function's events in a single S3 bucket, then implement a log analysis pipeline using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and...