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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

You're reading from Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go Build real-world, production-ready applications with AWS Lambda

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789134612

Length 416 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Serverless

Author (1):

Mohamed Labouardy

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Contributors

Preface

1. Go Serverless FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with AWS Lambda

3. Developing a Serverless Function with Lambda

4. Setting up API Endpoints with API Gateway

5. Managing Data Persistence with DynamoDB

6. Deploying Your Serverless Application

7. Implementing a CI/CD Pipeline

8. Scaling Up Your Application

9. Building the Frontend with S3

10. Testing Your Serverless Application

11. Monitoring and Troubleshooting

12. Securing Your Serverless Application

13. Designing Cost-Effective Applications

14. Infrastructure as Code

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Index

Setting up the Go environment

This section will walk you through how to download and install Go on multiple platforms, how to build a simple Hello World application, and how to use an IDE to speed up your Go development. Along the way, you will become familiar with the Go commands that you will need to write Lambda functions in Go.

The runtime environment

Download the appropriate package for your operating system and architecture from the Go download page (https://golang.org/dl/):

For macOS X: Download the goVersion.darwin.amd64.pkg file and follow the installation prompt. You may need to restart any open Terminal sessions for the change to take effect.
For Windows: Download the MSI installer and follow the wizard. The installer will set up environment variables for you.
For Linux: Open a new terminal session and type the following commands (at the time of writing, the current version is 1.10):

curl https://golang.org/doc/install?download=go1.10.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz -O /tmp/go1.10.tar.gz
tar ...

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Authors (1)

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy

Mohamed Labouardy is the CTO and co-founder of Crew, and a DevSecOps evangelist. He is the founder of Komiser, a regular conference speaker, and author of several books around Serverless and Distributed Applications. He is also a contributor to numerous open-source projects such as Jenkins, Docker, and Telegraf.

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