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Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices Build, secure, and deploy enterprise ready serverless applications with AWS to improve developer productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788620642
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Brian Zambrano Brian Zambrano
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. A Three-Tier Web Application Using REST 3. A Three-Tier Web Application Pattern with GraphQL 4. Integrating Legacy APIs with the Proxy Pattern 5. Scaling Out with the Fan-Out Pattern 6. Asynchronous Processing with the Messaging Pattern 7. Data Processing Using the Lambda Pattern 8. The MapReduce Pattern 9. Deployment and CI/CD Patterns 10. Error Handling and Best Practices 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Asynchronous processing of Twitter streams

Twitter is an excellent source of random data. Given the volume and variety of data, we can readily come up with example (and real) problems to solve. In our case, we're going to build a serverless processing system by sipping off the public twitter stream. Our example system will  have the following workflow:

  1. Read a tweet with cat or dog images from the Twitter firehose
  2. Place messages on an SQS queue.
  3. Worker processes will read those image URLs off the queue and perform image recognition.

While this example can be a bit contrived, the concepts demonstrated are true to life. We'll use the AWS Rekognition service to perform image recognition and labeling of any cat or dog images we find. Rekognition is quite fast at what it does, but it's easy to imagine processing images with a much slower service. In that case,...

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