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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
4
Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions
9
Section 3: Development Patterns
12
Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

Summary

This chapter has given us an idea about some of the things we can achieve by automating common tasks. It's highlighted that automating the ecosystem is really driven by the tags you use to describe your resources. Your Lambda functions will make decisions based on these tags that might affect the way they are handled. From reading this chapter, you will be able to take the examples away to apply them in your own organizational context, but don't stop there. Find more areas where tagging could be useful, to really strengthen your automation capabilities!

In the next chapter, we are going to learn how serverless has changed the way we process data in the cloud.