Mastering AWS Lambda

2017 | Computing & IT

Build cost-effective and highly available serverless applications using AWS Lambda About This Book * Discover how you can save your organization thousands of dollars in computing costs. * Master architecting solutions from tiny microservices that respond almost in real time. * One-stop guide to building serverless workloads using the AWS Lambda service Who This Book Is For If you are a Cloud administrator and developer who wishes to explore, learn, and leverage AWS Lambda to build serverless applications on the Cloud, this is the book for you. The book assumes you have some prior knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS core services such as EC2, IAM, S3, and so on. What You Will Learn * Understand the hype, significance, and business benefits of serverless computing and applications * Plunge into the serverless world of AWS Lambda and master its core components, how it works, and how to get started with it in a matter of minutes * Learn how to effectively and efficiently develop and test Lambda functions using Node.js, along with some keen coding insights and best practices * Quickly design and develop serverless applications by leveraging AWS Lambda as well as the Serverless Application Framework (SAF) * Explore a rich variety of real-world serverless use cases with Lambda and learn how you can apply it to your environments * Explore best practices for effectively monitoring and troubleshooting serverless applications In Detail AWS Lambda is a new compute platform in the Cloud that offers a zero-administration experience for back-end developers and uses microservices to automatically manage compute resources for you.

This makes it simple to create fast applications that respond to information quickly. The book begins with a high-level introduction into the world of serverless computing and its advantages. It then delves into what AWS Lambda provides as a service, how to develop and write Lambda functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. Moving on, the book will explore some of the latest enhancements made in AWS Lambda, such as the introduction of the Serverless Application Framework (SAF) and how developers can leverage it to develop their own serverless applications. The book also provides extensive hands-on steps and tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases, to guide readers in configuring and setting up their serverless environments with ease. Finally, the book discusses what to expect from AWS Lambda in the coming years and then details best practices and further reading links. By the end of the book, you will have gained all the skills required to work with AWS Lambda services.

Yohan Wadia (Author)