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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

You're reading from Learn AWS Serverless Computing A beginner's guide to using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and services from Amazon Web Services

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789958355

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Scott Patterson

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Why We're Here FREE CHAPTER

2. The Evolution of Compute

3. Event-Driven Applications

4. Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions

5. The Foundations of a Function in AWS

6. Adding Amazon API Gateway

7. Leveraging AWS Services

8. Going Deeper with Lambda

9. Section 3: Development Patterns

10. Serverless Framework

11. CI/CD with the Serverless Framework

12. Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases

13. Data Processing

14. AWS Automation

15. Creating Chatbots

16. Hosting Single-Page Web Applications

17. GraphQL APIs

18. Assessment

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Technical requirements

To understand this chapter, you will need prior knowledge of developing lambda functions, either from this book or from real-life experience. You will also need a general understanding of APIs and DevOps.

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Authors (1)

Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson is a cloud architecture lead, a product owner, and a proud technology geek. With a healthy obsession of all things AWS, Scott gets most excited about the things you can build with serverless patterns and modern cloud-native architectures. He has empowered many organizations to rethink, rearchitect, and accelerate the release of their products by using these very patterns. Scott is also a huge advocate for AWS within the developer community, being a co-founder of the AWS User Group in Wellington he runs events and conferences throughout New Zealand. Outside of work, Scott lives a high-adrenaline life where he enjoys paragliding from mountains, building cars, and racing motorcycles.

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