Learn AWS Serverless Computing

Using serverless development pipelines

Let's start with a question. What is a serverless development pipeline and does it differ from traditional patterns? The answer is yes and no, which means we should probably explore patterns to understand their context.

The idea of pipeline patterns comes from the need to perform source, build, test, and deployment tasks as part of the development life cycle of a piece of software. We use a tool called Jenkins, which introduced the idea of creating jobs for each of these stages. From there, we could chain jobs together to create configurable automated pipelines. Jenkins is still widely used today and has strong community support. Thousands of plugins have been developed by the community and support a ...