October 2020
Beginner
230 pages
6h 59m
English
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Preface
This book will not make you an expert, but it will be an important step of your journey—it will put you in the top half of developers.
The purpose of this book is to help you understand what’s important, and what you need to learn and improve on in order to level up in your career or ship your next big personal project.
About This Book
This book is about arming you with the knowledge you need to represent serverless as an important new technology. There are plenty of doubters out there. And there are plenty of zealots. This book is not from any of those, or for any of those. This book is for people who want to write serious software and gain the respect of peers and colleagues by doing it predictably. I didn’t choose to defend serverless. I just chose to ship great software in a way that minimizes maintenance as much as possible.
This book will not tell you how to make your use case serverless. Nor should it. This book will tell you how serverless can help you ship amazing software while saving a bunch of time. It will be real and honest with you about where the serverless world stands. If, on the other hand, you already know everything, it will (I hope) reinforce your worldview in a way that you can share with people who “don’t get it.”
The goal of this book is to serve as a guide for building maintainable and scalable services through the lens of serverless computing. First, we’ll align ourselves on what it means to build a production system. Then, we’ll discuss knowledge ...
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