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Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

By : Raheja, Giuseppe Borgese, Felsen
Book Image

Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

By: Raheja, Giuseppe Borgese, Felsen

Overview of this book

The DevOps movement has transformed the way modern tech companies work. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has been at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution, has also been a key contributor to the DevOps movement, creating a huge range of managed services that help you implement DevOps principles. Effective DevOps with AWS, Second Edition will help you to understand how the most successful tech start-ups launch and scale their services on AWS, and will teach you how you can do the same. This book explains how to treat infrastructure as code, meaning you can bring resources online and offline as easily as you control your software. You will also build a continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline to keep your app up to date. Once you have gotten to grips will all this, we'll move on to how to scale your applications to offer maximum performance to users even when traffic spikes, by using the latest technologies, such as containers. In addition to this, you'll get insights into monitoring and alerting, so you can make sure your users have the best experience when using your service. In the concluding chapters, we'll cover inbuilt AWS tools such as CodeDeploy and CloudFormation, which are used by many AWS administrators to perform DevOps. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to ensure the security of your platform and data, using the latest and most prominent AWS tools.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Using microservices and serverless


As we tested throughout this whole chapter, breaking the monolith into several pieces produces many advantages but also complicates the whole system. 

This concept is amplified when we use a microservices and serverless approach. This is because, if you use these two approaches in the correct way, it is possible to increase scalability, increase reliability, and reduce infrastructure costs. However, you always need to consider that the system will be more complex to build and manage. This leads to increasing the build and operative cost, especially if it is the first time that your team builds and manages a system with this kind of approach. 

The following image represents the concept of load and cost with micro services and serverless:

Image source: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/serverless-is-cheaper-not-simpler-a10c4fc30e49