Brian Zambrano - Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices: Build, secure, and deploy enterprise ready serverless applications with AWS to improve developer productivity

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Brian Zambrano is a software engineer and architect with a background cloud-based SAAS application architecture, design, and scalability. Brian has been working with AWS consistently since 2009. For the past several years, he has focused on cloud architecture with AWS using serverless technologies, microservices, containers, and the vast array of AWS services.

Brian was born and bred in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Fort Collins, CO with his wife and twin boys.

Daniel Paul Searles enthusiastically attempted to learn to program by book at thirteen, only to be completely stumped by a technical error in one of the required coding exercises. A number of years later, he was successful with another book, which propelled him to gain experience across many languages, operating systems, and tech stacks. The thought of what could have been if he was able to learn to program at a younger age energizes his work as a technical reviewer. Currently, he is pursuing Machine Learning and Functional Programming.

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Serverless architectures are changing the way software systems are being built and operated. When compared with systems that use physical servers or virtual machines, many tools, techniques, and patterns remain the same; however, there are several things that can or need to change drastically. To fully capitalize on the benefits of serverless systems, tools, patterns, and best practices should be thought through carefully before embarking on a serverless journey.

This book introduces and describes reusable patterns applicable to almost any type of serverless application, whether it be web systems, data processing, big data, or Internet of Things. You will learn, by example and explanation, about various patterns within a serverless context, such as RESTful APIs, GraphQL, proxy, fan-out, messaging, lambda architecture, and MapReduce, as well as when to use these patterns to make your applications scalable, performant, and fault tolerant. This book will take you through techniques for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment as well as designs for testing, securing, and scaling your serverless applications. Learning and applying these patterns will speed up your development lifecycle, while also improving the overall application architecture when building on top of your serverless platform of choice.

This book is aimed at software engineers, architects, and anyone who is interested in building serverless applications using a cloud provider. Readers should be interested in learning popular patterns to improve agility, code quality, and performance, while also avoiding some of the pitfalls that new users may fall into when starting with serverless systems. Programming knowledge and basic serverless computing concepts are assumed.

, Introduction, covers the basics of serverless systems and discusses when serverless architectures may or may not be a good fit. Three categories of serverless patterns are introduced and briefly explained.