Chapters selected by Marko Lukša
From Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition by Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig
In this article, we will compare various vile systems and how you can share data across EC2 instances.
From AWS Machine Learning in Motion
By Kesha Williams
From Serverless Applications with Node.js by Slobodan Stojanović and Aleksandar Simović
To understand serverless, consider for a moment washing machines. This might sound like a crazy place to start, but owning a server nowadays is similar to owning a washing machine. Everybody needs to clean their clothes, and the most logical solution seems to be buying a washing machine. But most of the time the washing machine is plugged in, it’s doing nothing. At best, it’s used five to fifteen hours per week. Same goes with servers. Most of the time, your average application server is waiting to receive a request, doing nothing.
From Serverless Applications with AWS
By Marcia Villalba
From Production-Ready Serverless
By Yan Cui
From AWS in Motion
By Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig
From Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches by Iain Foulds
This article, adapted from chapter three of Learn Azure in a Month of Lunches, takes a look at an Azure Web App in action. This requires a couple of parts. First, we create the basic Web App and see the default site in our browser. Then we use a sample web page from GitHub and push that to Azure.
