July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
8h 47m
English
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Add to cart
Let's look at the use case of adding a hotel to the cart. What I'm going to walk through is a very slimmed down version of what an e-commerce, add to cart functionality, will look like. In reality, it is a very complex system to build and operate. As mentioned, we need the following resources for this use case:
- Amazon Route 53 for storing the domain name of our hotel travel website, as discussed in the previous use case
- Amazon API Gateway for handling the HTTP(S) that come to our hotel website to add a hotel to their cart
- The AWS Lambda Function for handling the addition of hotels to carts
- The Amazon DynamoDB table that stores the cart items, along with information such as hotel details, trip start date and end date, and the ...