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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
1
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

Questions

  1. Given a data processing workload that extracts data from an on-premise ERP (source) and loads into S3 (target), what is the LEAST cost-effective type of data processing—assuming business analysts don't require real-time analysis since they access the financial reports once a day?

A) Batch
B) Micro-batch
C) Streaming

  1. One of the situations where Glue custom classifiers are required is when data sources contain nested data structures. When data structures are flat on the source, the default classifiers are sufficient for standard data ingestion processing.

A) True
B) False

  1. When is it necessary to run a crawler?

A) When the schema of the crawled dataset has changed
B) When data was added to a previously crawled dataset but the schema hasn't changed
C) When the dataset was moved to a different S3 bucket
D) Both A and B

  1. Which file format is best to...