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Mastering AWS Lambda

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467690
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Udita Gupta Udita Gupta
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Preface 1. Introducing AWS Lambda FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Lambda Functions 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

Recommendations and best practices

Here a few common best practices and set of recommendations that you should always keep in mind when it comes to testing Lambda functions:

  • Don't take testing lightly: Don't take testing your Lambda functions for granted. Make sure you start with unit testing of your functions and then even perform the integration tests to make sure all the components work together as expected. In some cases, you may even want to run.
  • Perform comprehensive unit testing: Always ensure that each unit test should be able to run independent of other unit tests. Also remember to test each condition of the code one at a time, but test it individually multiple times to ensure that the same result comes up no matter how many times it is executed.
  • Maintaining logical separation: It is always advised to keep the function's business logic separated from Lambda...
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