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Mastering  Node.js

You're reading from   Mastering Node.js Build robust and scalable real-time server-side web applications efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888960
Length 498 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sandro Pasquali Sandro Pasquali
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Kevin Faaborg Kevin Faaborg
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Preface 1. Understanding the Node Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming 3. Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients 4. Using Node to Access the Filesystem 5. Managing Many Simultaneous Client Connections 6. Creating Real-Time Applications 7. Using Multiple Processes 8. Scaling Your Application 9. Microservices 10. Testing Your Application 11. Organizing Your Work into Modules 12. Creating Your Own C++ Add-ons

Serverless applications

The abstractions that emerge from the design of these distributed systems, largely built on microservices, suggest a natural next step. Why have servers in the traditional sense at all? Servers are big, powerful machines designed in the age of monoliths. If our thinking is in terms of small, resource sipping, independent actors indifferent to the world around them, shouldn't we be deploying microservices to "microservers"? This line of thought has led a revolutionary ideas: AWS Lamda.

AWS Lambda

The introduction of Amazon's AWS Lambda technology boostrapped the serverless movement we have today. Amazon describes Lambda like this:

"AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning...
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