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Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices Build, secure, and deploy enterprise ready serverless applications with AWS to improve developer productivity

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788620642

Length 260 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Design Patterns

Author (1):

Brian Zambrano

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. A Three-Tier Web Application Using REST

3. A Three-Tier Web Application Pattern with GraphQL

4. Integrating Legacy APIs with the Proxy Pattern

5. Scaling Out with the Fan-Out Pattern

6. Asynchronous Processing with the Messaging Pattern

7. Data Processing Using the Lambda Pattern

8. The MapReduce Pattern

9. Deployment and CI/CD Patterns

10. Error Handling and Best Practices

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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A Three-Tier Web Application Pattern with GraphQL

In Chapter 2, A Three-Tier Web Application Using REST, we walked through the entire process of authoring a REST API on top of a serverless system with accompanying hosted services for the data and presentation layers. Our serverless logic layer was implemented with AWS Lambda and API Gateway, which provide many advantages regarding deployment, iteration speed, and scalability. REST APIs are well understood among the web development community and a safe choice when building a new web-based API. However, emerging tools and protocols are taking shape and providing us with alternatives to REST. GraphQL is arguably one of the most popular alternatives to REST APIs lately, evidenced by AWS and other platforms releasing hosted GraphQL services. You don't need to look very deep to find the uptick in GraphQL's popularity...

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Authors (1)

Zambrano

Zambrano

Brian Zambrano is a software engineer and architect with a background cloud-based SAAS application architecture, design, and scalability. Brian has been working with AWS consistently since 2009. For the past several years, he has focused on cloud architecture with AWS using serverless technologies, microservices, containers, and the vast array of AWS services. Brian was born and bred in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Fort Collins, CO with his wife and twin boys.

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