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You're reading from Hands-On Serverless Computing Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836654

Length 350 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Kuldeep Chowhan

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

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Foreword

Contributors

Preface

1. What is Serverless Computing? FREE CHAPTER

2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs

3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda

5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS

6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS

7. Getting Started with Azure Functions

8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions

9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure

10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions

11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions

12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud

13. Reference Architecture for a Web App

14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing

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Index

Reference architecture

Let's look at what a reference architecture for a real-time photo processing app will look like using the serverless resources that AWS offers. Let's look at one use case for an app that creates different types of resolution for a photo as soon as it gets uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket. The end result will also be stored in an S3 bucket. You can also look at AWS Well Architected Framework for reference at https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Architected_Framework.pdf

S3 bucket

We need an Amazon S3 bucket to which the photos can be uploaded for further processing. Let's learn about S3 first.

Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from any location. You can learn more about Amazon S3 at https://aws.amazon.com/s3/:

You can have AWS Lambda functions invoked to process Amazon S3 events, such as object created or object deleted events. You can have the AWS Lambda function invoked whenever a new photo is created in...