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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By : Scott Patterson
Book Image

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

Serverless Framework

We've reached the part of this book where we get to use what we've learned so far, put our understanding together, and move on to the next level of serverless application development. We've taught you the base knowledge that you need to succeed when you start your first project. In this chapter, we will turn simple lambda function development into full-blown serverless application development. We'll explore an application framework that accelerates our progress and makes it easy to build and deploy.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the need for a framework
  • Exploring the core concepts of the Serverless Framework
  • Deploying your first service
  • Testing and debugging