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Serverless Programming Cookbook

By : Heartin Kanikathottu
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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)

Introduction

DevOps is a mindset where the development team and the operations team responsible for a product or service collaborate together as a single, larger team to achieve their common goal of making a project successful. The actual implementation of DevOps practices differs from DevOps team to DevOps team. In practice, while core development activities may still be done by programmers and core operations activities may be still done by operations experts, many activities such as monitoring, debugging, and so on may be shared between both sides based on the work capacity available.

AWS provides many services that can help in monitoring and debugging projects deployed on the AWS cloud. Amazon CloudWatch is the most popular of these services, and without it we cannot be successful with AWS projects. CloudWatch can perform many functions, such as monitoring and alerting, gathering...