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Hands-On Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Computing Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836654
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kuldeep Chowhan Kuldeep Chowhan
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Preface 1. What is Serverless Computing? 2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda 4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda 5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS 6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS 7. Getting Started with Azure Functions 8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions 9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure 10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions 11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions 12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud 13. Reference Architecture for a Web App 14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a compute service through which you can run your functions. It will run your functions without the need for you to provision or manage any compute infrastructure. AWS Lambda can not only execute your functions, but can also easily scale to thousands of executions per second. As the server management is abstracted away from the developer, they can just focus on solving the business problem rather than having to also focus on server management and scaling the solution. The other big benefit in terms of cost is that you only pay the compute cost for the time AWS Lambda is executed, which provides you with higher utilization of resources at a significantly lower price than what you would be typically paying if you were to run the compute infrastructure all the time. With AWS Lambda, you are charged for every 100 ms your function executes and the number...

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