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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
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

Going Deeper with Lambda

Now that we've learned how to do the basics of invoking a Lambda function and using AWS services from within an execution, it's time to take things to the next level of understanding. In this chapter, we're going deeper into some of the more advanced aspects of Lambda development to help you build better solutions. We're going to touch on some points that will help you use Lambda to your full advantage.

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

  • Bringing your own runtime to Lambda
  • Lambda layers
  • Environment variables
  • Secrets management
  • Concurrency and reuse
  • How to structure a function