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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

By : Scott Patterson
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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
9
Section 3: Development Patterns
12
Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

Introducing AWS services

So far, we've learned about a lot about pipeline and deployment patterns that are available to us, and hopefully you can take this knowledge away and make a decision about which fits your team or organization the best.

The next logical step is to introduce some AWS-native technologies that we can implement in the architecture pattern before we look at an example.

AWS CodePipeline

The first service we need to introduce is CodePipeline, which is the orchestrator service for the pipeline process. It provides a workflow capability to implement a CI/CD automation pipeline by managing the inputs and outputs of other AWS services. It also provides a way to visualize the entire release process and status...