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Building Serverless Applications with Python

You're reading from   Building Serverless Applications with Python Develop fast, scalable, and cost-effective web applications that are always available

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787288676
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jalem Raj Rohit Jalem Raj Rohit
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Preface 1. The Serverless Paradigm FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Serverless Application in AWS 3. Setting Up Serverless Architectures 4. Deploying Serverless APIs 5. Logging and Monitoring 6. Scaling Up Serverless Architectures 7. Security in AWS Lambda 8. Deploying a Lambda Function with SAM 9. Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Lambda functions

Lambda functions are the core operating parts of a serverless architecture. They contain the code which is supposed to be executed. These functions are executed whenever the trigger attached to it has been set off. We have already learned about some of the most popular Lambda triggers in the previous section.

Whenever a Lambda function is triggered, it creates a container with the respective settings set by the user. We'll learn more about the container in our next section.

The spinning up of containers takes a bit of time, which may result in a latency whenever a fresh invocation of a Lambda function is done, as it takes time to set up the environment and bootstrap the settings mentioned by the user in the Advanced settings tab. So, to overcome this latency, AWS thaws a container for some time for reuse in case of another Lambda invocation within the thawing...

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