Chapter 26. Serverless Java
In recent years, the concept of microservices, which we've already looked at, has swept across the industry, quickly displacing the battle-tested application server with something smaller and leaner. Right on the heels of microservices comes a new concept--Functions as a Service, more commonly called serverless. In this chapter, you'll learn more about this new deployment model and build an application to demonstrate how to use it.
The application will be a simple notification system using the following technologies:
- Amazon Web Services
- Amazon Lambda
- Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Amazon Simple Notification System (SNS)
- Amazon Simple Email System (SES)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- JavaFX
- The options offered by cloud providers can be quite vast, and Amazon Web Services is no exception. In this chapter, we will attempt to use just enough of what AWS has to offer to help us build a compelling application as we wade into cloud-native application development.
