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

by Scott Patterson

Build, deploy, test, and run cloud-native serverless applications using AWS Lambda and other popular AWS services Serverless computing is a way to run your code without having to provision or manage servers. Amazon Web Services provides serverless services that you can use to build and deploy cloud-native applications. Starting with the basics of AWS Lambda, this book takes you through combining Lambda with other services from AWS, such as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Step Functions. You'll learn how to write, run, and test Lambda functions using examples in Node.js, Java, Python, and C# before you move on to developing and deploying serverless APIs efficiently using the Serverless Framework. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover tips and best practices for leveraging Serverless Framework to increase your development productivity. By the end of this book, you'll have become well-versed in building, securing, and running serverless applications using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda without having to manage any servers. This AWS book is for cloud architects and developers who want to build and deploy serverless applications using AWS Lambda. A basic understanding of AWS is required to get the most out of this book.

382 pages, Paperback

Published December 24, 2019

About the author

I'm the author of a new book called Dark Pools, as well as a New York Times best-seller called The Quants. I'm a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering financial regulation from Washington, D.C. I've also written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Mother Earth News. I have a masters of arts degree from James Madison University and currently live in Alexandria, Virginia.

Reviews

[R · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so good that it would be unfair to not write a good review that other readers may find helpful.

I am mid way through reading this book, but that is plenty to tell me that this a really good quality book. It is written in an easy to understand manner while progressively building towards fairly complex constructs. At the same time, the book is not verbose at all, and that is how technical books should be. Loving it the way the author has brought together additional concepts to enable you to develop production quality ecosystem around Lambdas, i.e. API Gateway, Serverless Framework, CI/CD, Security, GraphQL etc. just to name a few.

The book is really good in explaining the "why" first and then "how" as opposed to other "cookbook" style books which I have found to be an absolute waste of time.

This book is certainly not for an AWS beginner. To follow this book, you need to be comfortable with AWS in general.