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You're reading from Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin Develop scalable and cost-effective web applications using AWS Lambda and Kotlin

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788993708

Length 386 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Authors (2):

Ameya Kulkarni

Hardik Trivedi

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Basics of Serverless

2. AWS Serverless Offerings FREE CHAPTER

3. Designing a Kotlin Serverless Application

4. Developing Your Serverless Application

5. Improving Your App with Firebase Service

6. Analyzing Your Application

7. Secure Your Application

8. Scale Your Application

9. Advanced AWS Services

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Authors (2)

Trivedi

Hardik Trivedi is a self-taught computer programmer. He has worked on Android and Java since 2010 and has immersed himself in Kotlin and JavaScript. Apart from client projects, he loves contributing back to the development community by spending time on Stack Overflow and writing tech blogs. Hardik also mentors college students, professionals, and companies are interested in mobile app development. He is also an active community speaker.

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Kulkarni

Ameya Kulkarni has 8 years of work experience in the IT industry. He is adept with JVM technologies, Golang, designing microservice-based architectures, and DevOps. He has been working with Webonise for the past six years and as a Vice President, Engineering, for the last three years. He has a good grip at agile and lean product development. He likes designing solutions and consulting businesses to augment their core abilities with technology. He has experience of building scalable and distributed systems using JVM technologies.

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