AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end. Starting with an overview of AWS Lambda, the audiobook moves on to show you common examples and patterns you can use to call Lambda functions from a web page or a mobile app. 

The second part of the audiobook puts these smaller examples together to build larger applications. By the end, you'll be ready to create applications that take advantage of the high availability, security, performance, and scalability of AWS.  

With AWS Lambda, you write your code and upload it to the AWS cloud. AWS Lambda responds to the events triggered by your application or your users and automatically manages the underlying computer resources for you. Your application is divided into small functions, leading naturally to a reactive architecture and the adoption of microservices.  

What's inside:

• Create a simple API 
• Create an event-driven media-sharing application 
• Secure access to your application in the cloud 
• Use functions from different clients like web pages or mobile apps 
• Connect your application with external services  

Requires basic knowledge of JavaScript. Some examples are also provided in Python. No AWS experience is assumed.  

Danilo Poccia is a technical evangelist at Amazon Web Services and a frequent speaker at public events and workshops.  

Table of contents:

1. Running functions in the cloud 
2. Your first Lambda function 
3. Your function as a web API 
4. Managing security 
5. Using stand-alone functions 
6. Managing identities 
7. Calling functions from a client 
8. Designing an authentication service 
9. Implementing an authentication service 
10. Adding more features to the authentication service 
11. Building a media-sharing application 
12. Why event-driven? 
13. Improving development and testing 
14. Automating deployment 
15. Automating infrastructure management 
16. Calling external services 
17. Receiving events from other services

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.