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JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook

By : John Gilbert
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JavaScript Cloud Native Development Cookbook

By: John Gilbert

Overview of this book

Cloud-native development is a modern approach to building and running applications that leverages the merits of the cloud computing model. With cloud-native development, teams can deliver faster and in a more lean and agile manner as compared to traditional approaches. This recipe-based guide provides quick solutions for your cloud-native applications. Beginning with a brief introduction, JavaScript Cloud-Native Development Cookbook guides you in building and deploying serverless, event-driven, cloud-native microservices on AWS with Node.js. You'll then move on to the fundamental patterns of developing autonomous cloud-native services and understand the tools and techniques involved in creating globally scalable, highly available, and resilient cloud-native applications. The book also covers multi-regional deployments and leveraging the edge of the cloud to maximize responsiveness, resilience, and elasticity. In the latter chapters you'll explore techniques for building fully automated, continuous deployment pipelines and gain insights into polyglot cloud-native development on popular cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). By the end of the book, you'll be able to apply these skills to build powerful cloud-native solutions.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Implementing backpressure and rate limiting

The various services in a cloud-native system must be able to handle the ebb and flow of traffic through the system. Upstream services should never overload downstream services, and downstream services must be able to handle peak loads without falling behind or overloading services further downstream. This recipe shows how to leverage the natural backpressure of stream processors and implement additional rate limiting to manage throttling.

Getting ready

Before starting this recipe, you will need an AWS Kinesis Stream, such as the one created in the Creating an event stream recipe.

How...