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Building Serverless Applications with Python
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Building Serverless Applications with Python

by Jalem Raj Rohit
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 52m
English
Packt Publishing
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Scaling Up Serverless Architectures

So far, we have learned how to build, monitor, and log serverless functions. In this chapter, we will be learning concepts and engineering techniques that will help scale up serverless applications to be distributed, and that will also enable them to handle heavy workloads with high standards of security and throughput. In this chapter, we will also use some third-party tools, such as Ansible, to scale up our Lambda functions. We will be scaling up our Lambda functions to spawn a distributed serverless architecture, which will involve spawning multiple servers (or instances in the AWS environment). You therefore need to keep that in mind while following the examples mentioned in this chapter.

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