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Building Serverless Web Applications

You're reading from Building Serverless Web Applications Develop scalable web apps using the Serverless Framework on AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787126473

Length 354 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Zanon

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Understanding the Serverless Model FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with AWS

3. Using the Serverless Framework

4. Hosting the Website

5. Building the Frontend

6. Developing the Backend

7. Managing a Serverless Database

8. Securing the Serverless Application

9. Handling Serverless Notifications

10. Testing, Deploying, and Monitoring

Supporting HTTPS

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We are building an online store. We need to handle logins and payment transactions. Doing such things without an encrypted connection is not safe. It's too easy to eavesdrop the network and steal sensitive data.
HTTP/2 is the newest protocol and is much faster than the old HTTP/1.1 version. Currently, all major browsers that support HTTP/2 require HTTPS. It is not possible to support HTTP/2 over an unencrypted HTTP connection.
HTTP/2 with encryption is faster than HTTP/1.1 without encryption. Troy Hunt shows an interesting demo at this link: https://www.troyhunt.com/i-wanna-go-fast-https-massive-speed-advantage. In his test, loading a website with hundreds of small files was...

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Authors (1)

Zanon

Zanon

Diego Zanon is a full-stack developer for both JavaScript and .NET applications. He is passionate about understanding and trying new technologies and frameworks, especially those designed to solve scalability problems. In his free time, he likes to blog and contribute to GitHub and Stack Overflow. Diego is a computer engineer and has worked on a wide range of projects, from industrial systems to e-commerce websites, for customers around the world, including the USA, Brazil, Netherlands, and Germany.

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