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Hands-On Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Computing Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836654
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kuldeep Chowhan Kuldeep Chowhan
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Preface 1. What is Serverless Computing? 2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda 4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda 5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS 6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS 7. Getting Started with Azure Functions 8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions 9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure 10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions 11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions 12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud 13. Reference Architecture for a Web App 14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is AWS Step Functions?

So far, we have learned about writing serverless apps that involve only one AWS Lambda function. However, in reality, you will need multiple distributed apps to perform the complex tasks that you will be developing. AWS Step Functions is a service built by AWS, which helps you to coordinate multiple components (in our case, AWS Lambda functions) of a distributed application using visual workflows. As individual components of distributed applications each perform a discrete function, it helps to change and scale the individual components easily and quickly without having to worry about the other pieces of the distributed applications, as coordination between these discrete components is handled by AWS Step Functions.

AWS Step Functions provides a graphical user interface (GUI) through which you can visualize the components of your distributed application...

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