Mastering AWS Lambda - Softcover

Wadia, Yohan; Gupta, Udita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786467690 ISBN 13: 9781786467690

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2017

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Reseña del editor

Build cost-effective and highly scalable Serverless applications using AWS Lambda. About This Book * Leverage AWS Lambda to significantly lower your infrastructure costs and deploy out massively scalable, event-driven systems and applications * Learn how to design and build Lambda functions using real-world examples and implementation scenarios * Explore the Serverless ecosystem with a variety of toolsets and AWS services including DynamoDB, API Gateway, and much more! Who This Book Is For If you are a Cloud administrator and/or developer who wishes to explore, learn, and leverage AWS Lambda to design, build, and deploy Serverless applications in the cloud, then 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, along with the knowledge to work with any popular programming language such as Node.Js, Java, C#, 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 and how it works * Find out how to effectively and efficiently design, develop, and test Lambda functions using Node.js, along with some keen coding insights and best practices * Explore best practices to effectively monitor and troubleshoot Serverless applications using AWS CloudWatch and other third-party services in the form of Datadog and Loggly * Quickly design and develop Serverless applications by leveraging AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway using the Serverless Application Framework (SAF) and other AWS services such as Step Functions * Explore a rich variety of real-world Serverless use cases with Lambda and see how you can apply it to your environments In Detail AWS is recognized as one of the biggest market leaders for cloud computing and why not? It has evolved a lot since the time it started out by providing just basic services such as EC2 and S3 and today; they go all the way from IoT to Machine Learning, Image recognition, Chatbot Frameworks, and much more! One of those recent services that is also gaining a lot of traction is AWS Lambda! Although seemingly simple and easy to use, Lambda is a highly effective and scalable compute service that provides developers with a powerful platform to design and develop Serverless event-driven systems and applications. The book begins with a high-level introduction into the world of Serverless computing and its advantages and use cases, followed by a deep dive into AWS Lambda! You'll learn what services AWS Lambda provides to developers; how to design, write, and test Lambda functions; as well as monitor and troubleshoot them. The book is designed and accompanied with a vast variety of real-world examples, use cases, and code samples that will enable you to get started on your Serverless applications quickly. By the end of the book, you will have gained all the skills required to work with AWS Lambda services! Style and approach This step-by-step guide will help you build Serverless applications and run Serverless workloads using the AWS Lambda service. You'll be able to get started with it in a matter of minutes with easy-to-follow code snippets and examples.

Biografía del autor

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with more than 7 years' experience in the cloud industry, primarily focused on helping customers succeed with the cloud. As a technical consultant for one of the world's leading IT companies, Yohan provides guidance and implementation services to customers looking to leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, helping them come up with pragmatic solutions that make practical as well as business sense. Yohan is also an avid blogger and the author of two successful books: * Learning VMware vCloud Air--2015 * Administering AWS: The Definitive Guide--2016 He loves speaking about, blogging about, and training people on cloud platforms and technologies. Udita Gupta is an experienced cloud engineer with a passion for developing customized solutions, especially on the Amazon Web Services Cloud platform. She loves developing and exploring new technologies and designing reusable components and solutions around them. She particularly likes using the serverless paradigm, along with other upcoming technologies such as IoT and AI. A highly animated creature and an avid reader, Udita likes to spend her time reading all kinds of books, with a particular interest in Sheryl Sandberg and Khaled Hosseini. She is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786467690
• ISBN 13: 9781786467690
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300