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Mastering AWS Lambda

You're reading from   Mastering AWS Lambda Learn how to build and deploy serverless applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467690
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Udita Gupta Udita Gupta
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Yohan Wadia Yohan Wadia
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing AWS Lambda FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Lambda Functions 3. Testing Lambda Functions 4. Event-Driven Model 5. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services 6. Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda 7. Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda 8. Introducing the Serverless Application Framework 9. AWS Lambda - Use Cases 10. Next Steps with AWS Lambda

Summary

So, once again, we come towards the end of yet another interesting chapter! In this chapter, we learnt a bit about the importance of testing and why you should fall into a habit of testing your functions regularly. We also learned about the various ways in which we can effectively test our functions, either by using a combination of testing frameworks such as Mocha and Chai or by leveraging some more recent and way simpler npm modules such as the lambda-tester module. We also saw how a Lambda function could potentially be used as a test harness and perform both unit as well as load tests on other Lambda functions with the help of the Lambda test harness blueprint. Towards the end, we topped it all off with a pinch of recommendations, best practices and few worthy next steps as well.

In the next chapter, we will be diving a bit further into the amazing world of Lambda and...

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