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Building Serverless Applications with Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Applications with Python Develop fast, scalable, and cost-effective web applications that are always available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787288676
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalem Raj Rohit Jalem Raj Rohit
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Preface 1. The Serverless Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Serverless Application in AWS 3. Setting Up Serverless Architectures 4. Deploying Serverless APIs 5. Logging and Monitoring 6. Scaling Up Serverless Architectures 7. Security in AWS Lambda 8. Deploying a Lambda Function with SAM 9. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Functions as containers

For understanding the concept of functions being executed as/inside containers, we need to properly understand the concept of containers. To cite the definition of a container from the Docker documentation (https://www.docker.com/what-docker):

A container image is a lightweight, stand-alone, executable package of a piece of software that includes everything needed to run it: code, runtime, system tools, system libraries, settings.

What is available for both Linux and Windows based applications; containerized software will always run the same, regardless of the environment.

Containers isolate software from its surroundings (for example, differences between development and staging environments) and help reduce conflicts between teams running different software on the same infrastructure.

So, the concept of containers is that they are self-sustainable isolated...

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