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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
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Section 1: Why We're Here
4
Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions
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Section 3: Development Patterns
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Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

CI/CD with the Serverless Framework

At this stage, you should have a solid idea of how serverless components in AWS work together to form applications with serverless architectures. In the previous chapter, we introduced a framework that will accelerate iterations of your applications by allowing the developer to be quick. The Serverless Framework gave us a way to reduce the complexities of our deployment environments and focus on writing quality function code that holds the business logic.

The next step is to reduce the burden of testing, deployments, and rollbacks even further by introducing an automated pipeline that can take your projects and promote artifacts through a software development life cycle.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Using serverless development pipelines
  • Understanding deployment patterns
  • Introducing AWS services
  • Building a pipeline...