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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go Build real-world, production-ready applications with AWS Lambda

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134612
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Labouardy Mohamed Labouardy
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Go Serverless 2. Getting Started with AWS Lambda FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing a Serverless Function with Lambda 4. Setting up API Endpoints with API Gateway 5. Managing Data Persistence with DynamoDB 6. Deploying Your Serverless Application 7. Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline 8. Scaling Up Your Application 9. Building the Frontend with S3 10. Testing Your Serverless Application 11. Monitoring and Troubleshooting 12. Securing Your Serverless Application 13. Designing Cost-Effective Applications 14. Infrastructure as Code 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Load testing and scaling

In this part, we will generate random workloads to see how Lambda acts when incoming requests increase. To achieve that, we will use a load-testing tool, such as Apache Bench. In this chapter, I will be using hey, which is a Go-based tool, and is very efficient and faster than classic HTTP benchmarking tools due to Golang's built-in concurrency. You can download it by installing the following Go package from your terminal:

go get -u github.com/rakyll/hey
Be sure that the $GOPATH variable is set to be able to execute the hey command regardless of your current directory, or you can add the $HOME/go/bin folder to the $PATH variable.

Lambda autoscaling

Now, we are ready to run our first harness or...

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