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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

By : Mohamed Labouardy
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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)

Setting up the AWS environment

This section will walk you through how to install and configure the AWS command line. The CLI is a solid and mandatory tool and it will be covered in upcoming chapters; it will save us substantial time by automating the deployment and configuration of Lambda functions and other AWS services.

The AWS command line

The AWS CLI is a powerful tool for managing your AWS services and resources from a terminal session. It was built on top of the AWS API, and hence everything that can be done through the AWS Management Console can be done with the CLI; this makes it a handy tool that can be used to automate and control your AWS infrastructure through scripts. Later chapters will provide information on...