About the Author

Yohan WadiaYohan Wadia is a client-focused evangelist and technologist with more than 7 years' experience in the cloud industry, primarily focused on helping customers succeed with the cloud. As a technical consultant for one of the world's leading IT companies, Yohan provides guidance and implementation services to customers looking to leverage cloud computing through either Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, helping them come up with pragmatic solutions that make practical as well as business sense. Yohan is also an avid blogger and the author of two successful books: • Learning VMware vCloud Air—2015 • Administering AWS: The Definitive Guide—2016 He loves speaking about, blogging about, and training people on cloud platforms and technologies.Udita GuptaUdita Gupta is an experienced cloud engineer with a passion for developing customized solutions, especially on the Amazon Web Services Cloud platform. She loves developing and exploring new technologies and designing reusable components and solutions around them. She particularly likes using the serverless paradigm, along with other upcoming technologies such as IoT and AI. A highly animated creature and an avid reader, Udita likes to spend her time reading all kinds of books, with a particular interest in Sheryl Sandberg and Khaled Hosseini. She is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

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About This Book

Leverage AWS Lambda to significantly lower your infrastructure costs and deploy out massively scalable, event-driven systems and applicationsLearn how to design and build Lambda functions using real-world examples and implementation scenariosExplore the Serverless ecosystem with a variety of toolsets and AWS services including DynamoDB, API Gateway, and much more!

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Cloud administrator and/or developer who wishes to explore, learn, and leverage AWS Lambda to design, build, and deploy Serverless applications in the cloud, then this is the book for you! The book assumes you have some prior knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS core services such as EC2, IAM, S3, along with the knowledge to work with any popular programming language such as Node.Js, Java, C#, and so on.

What You Will Learn

Understand the hype, significance, and business benefits of Serverless computing and applicationsPlunge into the Serverless world of AWS Lambda and master its core components and how it worksFind out how to effectively and efficiently design, develop, and test Lambda functions using Node.js, along with some keen coding insights and best practicesExplore best practices to effectively monitor and troubleshoot Serverless applications using AWS CloudWatch and other third-party services in the form of Datadog and LogglyQuickly design and develop Serverless applications by leveraging AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and API Gateway using the Serverless Application Framework (SAF) and other AWS services such as Step