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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)

Automating the deployment of Lambda functions

In this section, we will see how to build a pipeline to automate the deployment process of the Lambda functions built in the previous chapter in the following different ways:

  • AWS-managed solutions, such as CodePipeline and CodeBuild
  • On-premise solutions, such as Jenkins
  • SaaS solutions, such as Circle CI

Continuous Deployment with CodePipeline and CodeBuild

AWS CodePipeline is a workflow-management tool that allows you to automate the release and deployment process of your software. The user defines a set of steps that form a CI workflow that can be executed on AWS-managed services, such as CodeBuild and CodeDeploy, or third-party tools, such as Jenkins.

In this example, AWS CodeBuild...