Learn AWS Serverless Computing

What this book covers

Chapter 1, The Evolution of Compute, explores the drivers and benefits behind moving from deploying hardware in physical data centers to scalable services in the cloud. At a high level, we cover the progression of hardware, compute, and software architectures.

Chapter 2, Event-Driven Applications, introduces the event-first mindset used to establish modern integration patterns. This chapter also highlights some of the challenges faced, including scale, distributed transactions, and failures.

Chapter 3, The Foundations of a Function in AWS, covers the core foundations of a Lambda function, including security constructs and the programming model. You then break down a function to understand its anatomy before following ...