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Building Serverless Applications with Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Applications with Python Develop fast, scalable, and cost-effective web applications that are always available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787288676
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalem Raj Rohit Jalem Raj Rohit
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Serverless Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Serverless Application in AWS 3. Setting Up Serverless Architectures 4. Deploying Serverless APIs 5. Logging and Monitoring 6. Scaling Up Serverless Architectures 7. Security in AWS Lambda 8. Deploying a Lambda Function with SAM 9. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned the concepts of how triggers work for AWS Lambda and how to select triggers depending on the problem statement and time intervals, in case of cron job triggers. We understood what Lambda functions are, along with understanding their functionalities and settings related to memory, VPCs, security, and fault tolerance. We also learned about the way container reuse is done under the hood specifically for AWS Lambda. Then, we covered event-driven functions and how they are implemented under the hood, the concept of containers, and their uses and applications in the domain of software engineering in general. Most importantly, from the concepts we learned regarding containers, we can now appreciate the options for choosing containers for running the Lambda functions.

After that, we talked about all the configuration settings available in the AWS...

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