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Learn AWS Serverless Computing
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Learn AWS Serverless Computing

by Scott Patterson
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
9h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Serverless offline (run it locally)

Some developers prefer to do their work locally and make sure everything works on their own machine before deploying to an environment. This is quite hard to do with cloud-native applications because, usually, the services we use are managed services that can't be run ourselves on a server outside of the cloud provider. For example, you can't run the full-blown Amazon S3 service yourself in your own data center or virtual machine.

Some of the benefits that developers are looking for when developing locally are as follows:

  • The speed at which new code or changes can be validated and tested. Not every code change requires a deployment to be pushed to a cloud service.
  • A better handle on the costs that are ...
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ISBN: 9781789958355