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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

Enabling code reuse through layers

When we are building a distributed serverless application, we often use many Lambda functions to make up all of the functionality that's needed to deliver a service to a user. Depending on our demarcation point for what constitutes a micro or nano service, we can be developing tens (but usually not hundreds) of Lambda functions. There might be multiple teams responsible for producing the microservice logic and function for their domain. Usually, there are common systems of record, monolith integration platforms, event topics, or third-party SaaS services that each microservice might need to reach out to. It's not efficient if every team has to write their own connector library to interface with a common system. Instead, we should aim to reuse as much common code as possible. Perhaps we could have a repository of organization-specific...

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