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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

Develop scalable and cost-effective web applications using AWS Lambda and Kotlin

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|Oct 2018
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Choose and build the right architecture using design patterns to create scalable and cost-efficient serverless applications

Key Features

  • Design enterprise-ready serverless applications that effortlessly meet your customers’ requirements
  • Deploy, manage, monitor, and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS
  • Use Cloud9 to provision a secured development environment in the cloud

Book Description

Serverless is a cloud computing execution model where the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation and provisioning of servers. Many companies now use serverless architectures to cut costs and improve scalability. Thanks to its concise and expressive syntax and a smooth learning curve, Kotlin is a great fit for developing serverless applications.

With this book, you’ll be able to put your knowledge to work by implementing serverless technology in your applications and become productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanation of essential concepts and examples, this book will help you understand the serverless architecture fundamentals and how to design serverless architectures for your applications. You’ll also explore how AWS Lambda functions work. The book will guide you in designing, building, securing, and deploying your application to production, along with implementing non-functional requirements such as auditing and logging. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to scale up and orchestrate serverless applications using an open source framework and handle distributed serverless systems in production.

By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build scalable and cost-efficient Kotlin applications with a serverless framework.

What you will learn

  • Design a serverless architecture
  • Use AWS Lambda to contain your serverless API
  • Explore various ways to secure your Kotlin AWS serverless application
  • Understand how a serverless API enables you to use huge infrastructure and cut costs
  • Discover how to handle distributed systems in Kotlin
  • Design the data ?ow between cloud services and custom business logic
  • Apply design patterns in serverless applications

Who this book is for

Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin is for you if you are a Kotlin developer who wants to learn about serverless architectures. Some knowledge of Kotlin programming and AWS is assumed.

Table of Contents

  1. The basics of Serverless
  2. Serverless Offerings of AWS
  3. Design your Kotlin serverless application
  4. Develop your Serverless application
  5. Improve your app with Firebase service
  6. Analyse your application
  7. Secure your application
  8. Scale your application
  9. Advanced AWS Services
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78899-104-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2018 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 386