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Hands-On Serverless Computing

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Product type Book

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836654

Pages 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Kuldeep Chowhan

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. What is Serverless Computing?

2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs

3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda

5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS

6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS

7. Getting Started with Azure Functions

8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions

9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure

10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions

11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions

12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud

13. Reference Architecture for a Web App

14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Photo processing application

The three AWS services that we just learned about will make up our serverless app for photo processing. To recap, the three AWS services are:

Amazon S3
Amazon SNS
AWS Lambda functions

The reference architecture for the photo processing application is shown next. Let me break down what is going on here:

The user uploads a photo to an S3 bucket
The upload of the photo to the S3 bucket could happen in multiple ways:
- AWS S3 Console
- Application that acts as a layer in front of S3
- AWS CLI
However, the files get uploaded to the S3 bucket, due to the configuration that we have on the S3 bucket, and a notification is sent to Amazon SNS as soon as a file gets created in the S3 bucket
The notification is sent to an SNS topic that has three subscribers:
- A Lambda function that creates thumbnails for the photo that was uploaded
- A Lambda function that creates...

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Authors (1)

Kuldeep Chowhan

Kuldeep Chowhan is a Principal Software Developer at Expedia Group. He has been involved in building tools and platforms for the last 5+ years at Expedia. He has extensive experience on using serverless technologies on AWS (such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB) through Node.js. He has built a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool for the automated creation of source code, a CI/CD pipeline, and a fully automated pipeline for deploying Docker containers/AWS Lambda. He is also passionate about CI/CD and DevOps.

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