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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By : Scott Patterson
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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By: Scott Patterson

Overview of this book

Serverless computing is a way to run your code without having to provision or manage servers. Amazon Web Services provides serverless services that you can use to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Starting with the basics of AWS Lambda, this book takes you through combining Lambda with other services from AWS, such as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Step Functions. You’ll learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using examples in Node.js, Java, Python, and C# before you move on to developing and deploying serverless APIs efficiently using the Serverless Framework. In the concluding chapters, you’ll discover tips and best practices for leveraging Serverless Framework to increase your development productivity. By the end of this book, you’ll have become well-versed in building, securing, and running serverless applications using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda without having to manage any servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Why We're Here
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Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions
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Section 3: Development Patterns
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Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

Data Processing

Ingesting, processing, normalizing, extracting, transforming, and loading are all activities we do with raw data. Each of our organizations has a wealth of raw data of different types and classifications. To be able to make sense and draw greater meaning from this data, we need to be able to store, process, and identify patterns on a huge scale. The services provided by AWS make it easier for us to process data by taking away the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building and operating enterprise-scale data management solutions.

The focus of this chapter is to give you an introduction to how to process data using serverless services in AWS. As you can imagine, it would be impossible to cover all the aspects of data processing in one chapter, or even in a whole book for that matter. We'll cover the basics for each type of processing and then dig into a real...