Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

This is the code repository for Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go, published by Packt.

Build real-world, production-ready applications with AWS Lambda

What is this book about?

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 Go serverless application and deploying it to Lambda.

This book covers the following exciting features:

• Understand how AWS Lambda works and use it to create an application
• Understand how to scaleup serverless applications
• Design a cost-effective serverless application in AWS
• Build a highly scalable and fault-tolerant CI/CD pipeline
• Understand how to troubleshoot and monitor serverless apps in AWS

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

aws lambda list-functions --region eu-central-1

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for Go developers who would like to learn about serverless architecture. Go programming knowledge is assumed. DevOps and Solution Architects who are interested in building serverless applications in Go can also choose this book.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-15).

Software and Hardware List

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. Click here to download it.

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Get to Know the Author

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.

Links for the Youtube video

• Getting Started with AWS Lambda
• Developing a Serverless Function with Lambda
• Setting up Serverless API with API Gateway
• Managing Data Persistence with DynamoDB
• Managing Lambda Functions with AWS CLI
• Managing Lambda Function Concurrency
• Building a Web Application backed with Serverless Functions
• Testing Serverless Applications locally with AWS SAM
• Instrumenting Lambda Functions with AWS X-Ray
• Tracking Lambda Memory usage with AWS CloudWatch
• Deploying Lambda Function with Terraform

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