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Armoring Lambda for Production

prod_ready_serv
From Production-Ready Serverless by Yan Cui

Machine Learning with SAM and Alexa

Six Questions for Kesha Williams of AWS Machine Learning in Motion

Kesha Williams is a full-stack web developer specializing in Java and AWS. She has won numerous awards for her innovative development, as well as her work as a college professor, speaker, tech blogger, and mentor. The founder of Colors of STEM, which cultivates role models to inspire girls of all races to enter the science and tech fields.

Holistic Problem Solving

Six Questions for Yan Cui, instructor of Production-Ready Serverless 

Bio: Yan Cui has worked with AWS for almost a decade, and has contributed his knowledge of production AWS Lamda to the Well-Architected whitepaper published by AWS. Based in London, he travels all over the world giving talks and workshops on serverless. This year he has presented in Copenhagen, Milan, Las Vegas, Portland, Tel Aviv, Krakow, and many more. His blog on The Burning Monk covers his favorite topics, including AWS, serverless, functional programming and chaos engineering.

Design, Secure, and Manage Serverless Backends




From Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition
By Peter Sbarski

Sharing Data Volumes Between Machines: EFS

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.

Aunt Maria’s Serverless Pizzeria

From Serverless Applications with Node js by Slobodan Stojanović and Aleksandar Simović

This article, excerpted from Serverless Apps with Node and Claudia.js, explores building a back-end app and API to process and store orders for aunt Maria’s pizzeria.

What Do Servers Have in Common with Washing Machines?

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.

API Gateways on AWS

From Serverless Architectures on AWS by Peter Sbarski

This article takes a close look at the API Gateway. We’ll look at the fundamental activities that go into building an API and discuss features such as staging and versioning, as well as caching, logging, and throttling of requests.

What is EC2 and What Does it Do?

From Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches by David Clinton

Have you been wondering what EC2 is, what it does, and what you can do with it? This article lays it all out for you!

Calling Functions from a Web Browser using AWS Lambda

From AWS Lambda in Action by Danilo Poccia

When configuring the Amazon API Gateway to use Lambda functions, you can choose to have no authentication and leave the API publicly available. Using this option together with the HTTP GET method allows your API to be called by a web browser. You need to return the expected content type for HTML (text/html) to implement a public website.

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