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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

Understanding serverless SPAs on AWS

Serverless SPAs are the new 3-tier architecture for websites. If you've already had experience with them, then you'll know how easy they are to deploy and release changes to. If you're a frontend developer, then you can finally take control of the infrastructure, and have the website code sitting in the same repository existing as one stack. If you haven't yet needed to use a serverless SPA, this is an introduction to the components involved.

We'll first cover the architecture pattern in order to understand it from a high level, then have a deeper look into the components involved. We'll finish by learning how to build an SPA using Serverless Framework.

The architecture

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