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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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Yohan Wadia Yohan Wadia
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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

Event-Driven Model

So far, we have learned a thing or two about serverless and AWS Lambda. We started off by understanding the entire concept behind serverless architecture and, later, dived into the amazing world of serverless computing with AWS Lambda. We learned how to effectively write, develop, package, and test Lambda functions and also picked up on a few best practices and recommendations along the way.

From this chapter onwards, we will be taking a slightly different approach to understand how few core functionalities of Lambda actually work. For example, how do you trigger Lambda functions to execute based on a trigger? That's exactly what this chapter is going to be all about. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • What event-driven model is all about
  • Understanding the event-driven model of Lambda along with a few simple event-driven architectures...
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