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You're reading from Mastering AWS Lambda Learn how to build and deploy serverless applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786467690

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Authors (2):

Udita Gupta

Yohan Wadia

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing AWS Lambda

2. Writing Lambda Functions FREE CHAPTER

3. Testing Lambda Functions

4. Event-Driven Model

5. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services

6. Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda

7. Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda

8. Introducing the Serverless Application Framework

9. AWS Lambda - Use Cases

10. Next Steps with AWS Lambda

Processing content at the edge with Lambda@Edge

Lambda@Edge was launched by AWS during the 2016 AWS re:Invent summit; however, it had been in the preview mode until right now. The service basically allows you to execute Lambda functions in edge locations in response to CloudFront events. With this service, you now don't need to install, configure, or scale servers globally in order to customize your content. With Lambda@Edge, all this work is handled by the Lambda service itself. All you need to do is write the function and deploy it, and that's it!

At the time of writing, Lambda@Edge supports writing functions for the following CloudFront events:

Viewer request: When CloudFront receives a request from a viewer
Viewer response: Before CloudFront returns the response to the viewer
Origin request: Before CloudFront forwards a request to the origin
Origin response: When...

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Authors (2)

Yohan Wadia

Yohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with an experience of more than 8 years in the cloud industry. He focuses on helping customers succeed with cloud adoption. As a technical consultant, he guides customers with pragmatic solutions that leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and make practical and business sense.

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Gupta

Rakesh Gupta is best known as an automation champion in the Salesforce ecosystem. He has written over 150 articles on Visual Workflow and Process Builder to show how someone can use Visual Workflow and Process Builder to minimize code usage. He is one of the Visual Workflow and Process Builder experts in the industry. He has trained more than 700 individual professionals around the globe and conducted corporate training. Currently, Rakesh is working as a Salesforce solution architect consultant.

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