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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Learn AWS Serverless Computing A beginner's guide to using AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and services from Amazon Web Services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789958355
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scott Patterson Scott Patterson
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Why We're Here FREE CHAPTER
2. The Evolution of Compute 3. Event-Driven Applications 4. Section 2: Getting Started with AWS Lambda Functions
5. The Foundations of a Function in AWS 6. Adding Amazon API Gateway 7. Leveraging AWS Services 8. Going Deeper with Lambda 9. Section 3: Development Patterns
10. Serverless Framework 11. CI/CD with the Serverless Framework 12. Section 4: Architectures and Use Cases
13. Data Processing 14. AWS Automation 15. Creating Chatbots 16. Hosting Single-Page Web Applications 17. GraphQL APIs 18. Assessment 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Well, there you have it. In this chapter, you learned about the fundamentals of how a Lambda function works in AWS. We covered quite a lot of thing: the permissions model, the three types of invocation, event source options, the code structure of a function, and what is available during execution. We also learned how to write, build, and deploy a function and, hopefully, you were successful in invoking your first Lambda function.

If you're developing and deploying solutions to AWS, it's really important that you learn how Lambda functions work and how to write your own. They will undoubtedly be a useful component in building future solutions.

In later chapters, we're going to explore a development life cycle for Lambda functions and explore some more advanced concepts. In the next chapter, we'll add another component that complements our Lambda compute...

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