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Building Serverless Web Applications

You're reading from Building Serverless Web Applications

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Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787126473

Pages 354 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Diego Zanon

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Understanding the Serverless Model

2. Getting Started with AWS

3. Using the Serverless Framework

4. Hosting the Website

5. Building the Frontend

6. Developing the Backend

7. Managing a Serverless Database

8. Securing the Serverless Application

9. Handling Serverless Notifications

10. Testing, Deploying, and Monitoring

Chapter 7. Managing a Serverless Database

A serverless database is defined like any other serverless service: it needs to have high availability, and high scalability and, the pricing model must consider its real usage. Satisfying those conditions is particularly hard for databases since performance is a key feature. For a predictable and high performance, databases are usually configured in their own dedicated servers, but serverless requires a shared model to avoid charging the customer for 100% of the time the database is available. In serverless, we want to pay only when a request is done and not when the database is in an idle state.

Currently, only a few services have managed to bring the serverless model to databases. AWS offers just one service: SimpleDB, but it lacks many important features and is extremely limited. For other and better options, you can try FaunaDB, Google Firebase, or Google Cloud Datastore. To continue to use AWS services in this book, we are going to cover DynamoDB...

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Authors (1)

Diego Zanon

Diego Zanon is a full-stack developer for both JavaScript and .NET applications. He is passionate about understanding and trying new technologies and frameworks, especially those designed to solve scalability problems. In his free time, he likes to blog and contribute to GitHub and Stack Overflow. Diego is a computer engineer and has worked on a wide range of projects, from industrial systems to e-commerce websites, for customers around the world, including the USA, Brazil, Netherlands, and Germany.

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