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Serverless Programming Cookbook

By : Heartin Kanikathottu
Book Image

Serverless Programming Cookbook

By: Heartin Kanikathottu

Overview of this book

Managing physical servers will be a thing of the past once you’re able to harness the power of serverless computing. If you’re already prepped with the basics of serverless computing, Serverless Programming Cookbook will help you take the next step ahead. This recipe-based guide provides solutions to problems you might face while building serverless applications. You'll begin by setting up Amazon Web Services (AWS), the primary cloud provider used for most recipes. The next set of recipes will cover various components to build a Serverless application including REST APIs, database, user management, authentication, web hosting, domain registration, DNS management, CDN, messaging, notifications and monitoring. The book also introduces you to the latest technology trends such as Data Streams, Machine Learning and NLP. You will also see patterns and practices for using various services in a real world application. Finally, to broaden your understanding of Serverless computing, you'll also cover getting started guides for other cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM cloud. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired the skills you need to build serverless applications efficiently using various cloud offerings.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Setting up an S3 static website

Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object store in AWS that allows us to store objects against keys. We already used S3 to deploy our Lambda code and within CloudFormation scripts, in earlier recipes. S3 can also be configured to host a static website. In this recipe, we will create an S3 bucket and configure it as a static website by using AWS CLI commands and CloudFormation scripts.

Getting ready

A basic understanding of Amazon S3 is required for this section. We used S3 to upload our Lambda code in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Serverless Computing on AWS, and we discussed a few of its properties. A decent understanding of web technologies, such as HTML, would be beneficial, but is not mandatory...