Hands-On Serverless Applications with Go

Learn to build, secure, deploy, and manage your serverless application in Golang with AWS Lambda

Key Features

Implement AWS lambda to build scalable and cost-efficient applications in Go
Design and set the data flow between cloud services and custom business logic
Learn to design Lambda functions using real-world examples and implementation scenarios

Book DescriptionServerless 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 starts with a quick introduction to the world of serverless architecture and its benefits, and then delves into AWS Lambda using 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. You will also learn how 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’ll learn how to troubleshoot and monitor your apps in near real-time with services such as AWS CloudWatch and X-ray. This book will also teach you how to secure the access with AWS Cognito.

By the end of this book, you will have mastered designing, building, and deploying a Go serverless application.

What you will learn

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
Discover the working of APIs and single page applications
Build a production-ready serverless application in Go

Who this book is forThis 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.

Author Biography

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.