You're reading from AWS for Solutions Architects Design your cloud infrastructure by implementing DevOps, containers, and Amazon Web Services

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789539233

Length 454 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Exploring AWS

2. Chapter 1: Understanding AWS Cloud Principles and Key Characteristics FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation

4. Section 2: AWS Service Offerings and Use Cases

5. Chapter 3: Storage in AWS – Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

6. Chapter 4: Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

7. Chapter 5: Selecting the Right Database Service

8. Chapter 6: Amazon Athena – Combining the Simplicity of Files with the Power of SQL

9. Chapter 7: AWS Glue – Extracting, Transforming, and Loading Data the Simple Way

10. Chapter 8: Best Practices for Application Security, Identity, and Compliance

11. Section 3: Applying Architectural Patterns and Reference Architectures

12. Chapter 9: Serverless and Container Patterns

13. Chapter 10: Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures

14. Chapter 11: Domain-Driven Design

15. Chapter 12: Data Lake Patterns – Integrating Your Data across the Enterprise

16. Chapter 13: Availability, Reliability, and Scalability Patterns

17. Section 4: Hands-On Labs

18. Chapter 14: Hands-On Lab and Use Case

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Reviewing the list of available AWS programming languages

As we design our microservice architecture, we need to decide which programming language to use for development. As we saw in Chapter 9, Serverless and Container Patterns, and Chapter 10, Microservice and Event-Driven Architectures, microservices make it easy to use different languages for different microservices since they all communicate through the common RESTful protocol by passing JSON back and forth. As we also learned in these chapters, just because we can use different languages doesn't mean that we should have a mishmash of services, all written in different languages.

Let's spend some time exploring the advantages and disadvantages of the various options. First, AWS offers a version of the SDK in a limited number of languages, so unless you have a compelling reason to go with a different choice, you probably want to stick to one of the supported languages. The supported languages as of May 2020 are as...