Labouardy - HANDS-ON SERVERLESS APPLICATIONS WITH GO: build real-world, production-ready applications with ... aws lambda

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Mohamed Labouardy is a software engineer/DevOps engineer and AWS Solution Architect. He is also a certified Scrum Master.

He is interested in serverless architecture, containers, distributed systems, Go, chaos engineering, and machine learning. He is a contributor to numerous open source projects such as DialogFlow, Jenkins, Docker, Nexus, and Telegraf. He has authored some open source projects related to DevOps as well.

He currently works at Foxintelligence as a lead DevOps engineer. He is also a technical content writer at several platforms and is a regular speaker at multiple international events and conferences, such as Nexus User Conference and AllDayDevOps.

You can find him on Twitter at @mlabouardy.

I would like to thank everyone at Packt Publishing who has contributed to the realization of this book. I would also like to thank all my friends for their support and motivation. Special thanks to Rania Zyane for encouraging me to embrace this opportunity. Finally, I want to thank my parents for their love, good advice, and continuous support.

Arpit Aggarwal is a programmer with over 7 years of industry experience in software analysis, design, effort estimation, development, troubleshooting, testing, and supporting web applications. He is among the top contributors of StackOverflow with more than 9,000 reputation and more than 100 badges in multiple areas such as Java, Scala, Go, Spring, Spring-MVC, GiT, Angular, Unit Testing, Web Services, and Docker, and has written many technical articles for Java Code Geeks, System Code Geeks, Web Code Geeks, and DZone.

Radomr Sohlich received the master's degree in Applied Informatics from Faculty of Applied Informatics at Tomas Bata University in Zln. After that, he got a job in a start-up company as a software developer and worked on various projects, usually based on the Java platform. Currently, he continues a software developer career as a contractor for a large international company.

In 2015, he fell in love with Go and kept exploring the endless power and possibilities of the language. He is passionate about learning new approaches and technology and feels the same about sharing the knowledge with others.

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Serverless architecture is popular in the tech community due to AWS Lambda. Go is simple to learn, straightforward to work with, and easy to read for other developers, and now it's been heralded as a supported language for AWS Lambda. This book is your optimal guide to designing a s erverless Go application and deploying it to Lambda.
This book starts with a quick introduction to the world of serverless architecture and its benefits, then delves into AWS Lambda through practical examples. You'll then learn how to design and build a production-ready application in Go using AWS serverless services with zero upfront infrastructure investment. The book will help you learn how to scale up serverless applications and handle distributed serverless systems in production. Then you will also learn to log and test your application.
Along the way, you'll also discover how to set up a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment process of your Lambda functions. Moreover, you will learn to troubleshoot and monitor your applications in near real time with services such as AWS CloudWatch and X-Ray. The book will also teach you how to scale up serverless applications and secure the access with AWS Cognito.
By the end of this book, you will have mastered designing, building, and deploying Go-based Lambda applications to production.