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Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices Build, secure, and deploy enterprise ready serverless applications with AWS to improve developer productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788620642
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. A Three-Tier Web Application Using REST 3. A Three-Tier Web Application Pattern with GraphQL 4. Integrating Legacy APIs with the Proxy Pattern 5. Scaling Out with the Fan-Out Pattern 6. Asynchronous Processing with the Messaging Pattern 7. Data Processing Using the Lambda Pattern 8. The MapReduce Pattern 9. Deployment and CI/CD Patterns 10. Error Handling and Best Practices 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing our logic layer


Since we've covered the overall design and different layers, let's get down to the implementation of our application code.

Application entrypoint

Every application, web or otherwise, needs a primary entry point. In our case, we'll use handler.py to begin application execution when a Lambda function is invoked. Serverless Framework applications will generate a handler.py file when you bootstrap a new project, so this pattern should be familiar to anyone who has used Serverless before. If you've never worked with the Serverless Framework, what follows will be a thorough introduction:

import sys

from pathlib import Path

# Munge our sys path so libs can be found
CWD = Path(__file__).resolve().cwd() / 'lib'
sys.path.insert(0, str(CWD))

import simplejson as json

from cupping.handlers.session import (
        handle_session,
        handle_session_detail,
)

from cupping.exceptions import Http404

CORS_HEADERS = {
        'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
        'Access...
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