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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

Summary

This concludes our chapter on chatbots, where we learned about two common use cases. In the first use case, we created a bot using Amazon Lex, which uses artificial intelligence to provide natural language understanding. This experience was very conversational and with the comprehensive dialog model, it was easy to see just how extensible the Lex platform is.

The second use case showed us how we can automate command-type tasks using a bot to gather facts or perform actions. Integrating this type of bot into our current ways of working is really useful but does require more programming to get right.

In the next chapter, we will explore another set of serverless components that have redefined how we host static web applications.