Hardik Trivedi - Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin: Develop scalable and cost-effective web applications using AWS Lambda and Kotlin

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Hardik Trivedi is a self-taught computer programmer. He has worked on Android and Java since 2010 and has immersed himself in Kotlin and JavaScript. Apart from client projects, he loves contributing back to the development community by spending time on Stack Overflow and writing tech blogs. Hardik also mentors college students, professionals, and companies are interested in mobile app development. He is also an active community speaker.

Ameya Kulkarni has 8 years of work experience in the IT industry. He is adept with JVM technologies, Golang, designing microservice-based architectures, and DevOps. He has been working with Webonise for the past six years and as a Vice President, Engineering, for the last three years. He has a good grip at agile and lean product development. He likes designing solutions and consulting businesses to augment their core abilities with technology. He has experience of building scalable and distributed systems using JVM technologies.

Peter Sommerhoff is the founder of CodeAlong.tv and teaches more than 40,000 learners from around the globe how to code, combining the foundations of software development with plenty of hands-on practice. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

Peter is most passionate about Kotlin, and has distilled his knowledge about the language into his book, Kotlin for Android App Developmentan in-depth and practical introduction to Kotlin that guides you through the language, interoperating with Java, and writing two Android apps purely in Kotlin.

When he's not teaching, he enjoys learning new things, cooking food, playing badminton, and going on biking tours.

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Serverless architecture allows you to build and run applications and services without having to manage the infrastructure. This book will be your companion and guide to designing serverless architectures for your applications with AWS and Kotlin. This book will help you build the client application and the backend functions serving it.

The book will begin with an explanation of the fundamentals of serverless architecture and the working of AWS lambda functions. You will then learn to build, release, and deploy your application to production. You will also learn to log and test your application and build a serverless API. You will then learn to troubleshoot and monitor your app and AWS lambda programming concepts with API references. Moving on, you will learn how to scale up serverless applications and handle distributed serverless systems in production. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge needed to build scalable and cost-efficient Kotlin applications with the serverless framework.