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AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide

You're reading from AWS Lambda Quick Start Guide Learn how to build and deploy serverless applications on AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789340198

Length 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Markus Klems

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with AWS FREE CHAPTER

2. Exploring the Serverless Framework

3. Building a Serverless Application

4. Programming AWS Lambda with Java

5. Programming AWS Lambda with Python

6. Programming AWS Lambda with C#

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Summary

In this chapter, we built our first serverless application. We used Lambda functions for implementing business logic, DynamoDB for data persistence, Cognito for user identification, and CloudFront for serving the frontend. In the next chapter, you will learn how to program Lambda using other programming languages, in particular Java, Python, and C#.

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Authors (1)

Klems

Klems

Markus Klems is a software development and system administration expert for scalable, high-availability, and high-performance software systems, such as big data, mobile, web application, and Software-as-a-Service systems. Within the framework of his research and development work at TU Berlin and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Markus has gained in-depth knowledge and experience of complex and large-scale IT systems. He has been working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) since 2008 and is particularly excited about serverless computing and serverless microservice architectures.

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