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Building Serverless Architectures

You're reading from Building Serverless Architectures Unleash the power of AWS Lambdas for your applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787129191

Length 242 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Gurturk

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Getting Started with Serverless FREE CHAPTER

2. Infrastructure as a Code

3. Hello Internet

4. Applying Enterprise Patterns

5. Persisting Data

6. Building Supporting Services

7. Searching Data

8. Monitoring, Logging, and Security

9. Lambda Framework

Chapter 5. Persisting Data

So far in our book, we've introduced many important concepts about how to think in serverless environments, and we explored the fundamentals. In this chapter, we will implement a vast majority of our example forum application, endpoints for user creation, post creation and reading, and more importantly, we will persist our data in a data storage layer. The data storage engine we picked for this project is DynamoDB, the schemaless database engine of AWS. In this long chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Creating DynamoDB tables using CloudFormation
Injecting environment variables to Lambda functions
Creating endpoints with more sophisticated input and output types

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Authors (1)

Gurturk

Gurturk

Cagatay Gurturk is a software engineer, internet enterpreneur, and cloud enthusiast. After finishing his studies at the Istanbul Technical University, he continued his education to get a master's degree in computer engineering at Bahcesehir University. In 2004, in his freshman year at the college, he co-founded Instela, which quickly became one of the most well-known internet platforms in Turkey, with millions of visitors per month. Being the technical co-founder of Instela, he gained experience of running web platforms at scale and was also introduced to the world of cloud computing. After long years as an internet enterpreneur in Istanbul and Barcelona, he continued his career in different companies, where he delivered software running on cloud infrastructures, especially on AWS. He authored some open source projects related to AWS as well. He currently works at eBay as a software development manager, and he is also a certified AWS Solutions Architect.

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