AWS Lambda in Action: Eventdriven serverless applications

Summaryaws Lambda In Action Is An Example-Driven Tutorial That Teaches You How To Build Applications That Use An Event-Driven Approach On The Back End. Purchase Of The Print Book Includes A Free Ebook In Pdf, Kindle, And Epub Formats From Manning Publications. About The Technologywith Aws Lambda, You Write Your Code And Upload It To The Aws Cloud. Aws Lambda Responds To The Events Triggered By Your Application Or Your Users, And Automatically Manages The Underlying Computer Resources For You. Back-End Tasks Like Analyzing A New Document Or Processing Requests From A Mobile App Are Easy To Implement. Your Application Is Divided Into Small Functions, Leading Naturally To A Reactive Architecture And The Adoption Of Microservices. About The Bookaws Lambda In Action Is An Example-Driven Tutorial That Teaches You How To Build Applications That Use An Event-Driven Approach On The Back-End. Starting With An Overview Of Aws Lambda, The Book Moves On To Show You Common Examples And Patterns That You Can Use To Call Lambda Functions From A Web Page Or A Mobile App. The Second Part Of The Book Puts These Smaller Examples Together To Build Larger Applications. By The End, YouLl Be Ready To Create Applications That Take Advantage Of The High Availability, Security, Performance, And Scalability Of Aws. WhatS Insidecreate A Simple Apicreate An Event-Driven Media-Sharing Applicationsecure Access To Your Application In The Clouduse Functions From Different Clients Like Web Pages Or Mobile Appsconnect Your Application With External Servicesabout The Readerrequires Basic Knowledge Of Javascript. Some Examples Are Also Provided In Python. No Aws Experience Is Assumed. About The Authordanilo Poccia Is A Technical Evangelist At Amazon Web Services And A Frequent Speaker At Public Events And Workshops. Table Of Contentspart 1 - First Stepsrunning Functions In The Cloudyour First Lambda Functionyour Function As A Web Apipart 2 - Building Event-Driven Applicationsmanaging Securityusing Standalone Functionsmanaging Identitiescalling Functions From A Clientdesigning An Authentication Serviceimplementing An Authentication Serviceadding More Features To The Authentication Servicebuilding A Media-Sharing Applicationwhy Event-Driven?Part 3 - From Development To Productionimproving Development And Testingautomating Deploymentautomating Infrastructure Managementpart 4 - Using External Servicescalling External Servicesreceiving Events From Other Services