Zanon - Building Serverless Web Applications

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: July 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78712-647-3

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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 contribute to Stack Overflow and write in his blog.

Diego is a computer engineer with experience on a wide range of projects, from industrial systems to e-commerce websites, for customers around the world, including the USA, Brazil, Netherlands, and Kazakhstan.

Chintan Mehta is a cofounder af KNOWARTH Technologies (https://www.knowarth.com) and heads Cloud/RIMS/DevOps. He has a diploma in computer hardware and network certification and has rich progressive experience in systems and server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, Devops, RIMS, and Server Administration on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate.
Chintan's roles during his career in infrastructure and operations include requirement analysis, architecture design, security design, high availability and disaster recovery planning, automated monitoring, automated deployment, building processes to help customers, performance tuning, infrastructure setup and deployment, and application setup and deployment along with setting up various offices at different locations with a fantastic sole ownership to achieve operation readiness for the organizations he has been associated with.
He headed the Managed Cloud Services practice at his previous job and received multiple awards for his valuable contribution to the business of the group. He was involved in creating solutions and consulting to build SAAS, IAAS, and PAAS services on Cloud. He also led the ISO 27001:2005 implementation team as a joint management representative. Chintan has authored Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions and reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices.

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Serverless is a buzzword created to identify cloud services that are totally managed by the provider and have a different billing model where you pay only for the time that you use them, measured in a granularity of tenths of a second and not hours. Serverless Computing allows a wide range of applications to benefit from reduced costs, faster development, and much less trouble with availability and scalability. Those are enough reasons for you to start learning how to build serverless applications.

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