You're reading from Building Serverless Architectures Unleash the power of AWS Lambdas for your applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129191

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Cagatay Gurturk

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Serverless FREE CHAPTER

2. Infrastructure as a Code

3. Hello Internet

4. Applying Enterprise Patterns

5. Persisting Data

6. Building Supporting Services

7. Searching Data

8. Monitoring, Logging, and Security

9. Lambda Framework

Summary

In this chapter, we created a serverless REST API with our Lambda function as a backend. We looked at how to configure API Gateway and what options are available for future use cases. We saw that API Gateway lacks some features but it is possible to solve this issue by leveraging CloudFront CDN in front of API Gateway. We configured our custom domain using the Route 53 DNS service and even created a free SSL certificate to use with our CDN. At the end of the chapter, we had a fully serverless and fully AWS-backed REST API. We also spoke a bit about serverless architectures.

This chapter was full of CloudFormation configurations more than actual code. CloudFormation is a sum of all AWS configurations and, obviously, it is a very large topic that we cannot cover fully. If you do not understand some of the options, do not hesitate to refer to the AWS configuration, which...

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Authors (1)

Gurturk

Cagatay Gurturk is a software engineer, internet enterpreneur, and cloud enthusiast. After finishing his studies at the Istanbul Technical University, he continued his education to get a master's degree in computer engineering at Bahcesehir University. In 2004, in his freshman year at the college, he co-founded Instela, which quickly became one of the most well-known internet platforms in Turkey, with millions of visitors per month. Being the technical co-founder of Instela, he gained experience of running web platforms at scale and was also introduced to the world of cloud computing. After long years as an internet enterpreneur in Istanbul and Barcelona, he continued his career in different companies, where he delivered software running on cloud infrastructures, especially on AWS. He authored some open source projects related to AWS as well. He currently works at eBay as a software development manager, and he is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect.

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