Serverless Architectures on AWS

Peter Sbarski's introduction to Serverless by means of AWS does great justice to the growing movement that is Serverless. As a software professional of nearly a decade, I'm pleased with how this book guides me through this new technological landscape. The book is basically one very large, well crafted tutorial that you can work through at your own pace. Building off of previous chapters, each new chapter reveals something unique about how code is written in the Serverless paradigm. I'm pleased with how concise this "tutorial" was. I'm typically a very picky reader and have very low tolerance for fluff. Many books on tech. wander and add filler content from reference manuals just to hit a page count. Just about everything in this book, however, was worth my time to read. I highly recommend working through the examples in the book as opposed to merely reading them. I was able to confidently work the examples and produce working code just fine. Peter S. seems to have taken great pains in adding lots of detail in the form of screenshots and code snippets. This helped me breeze through both code and configuration (something you get to do a lot more of in the Serverless world). The only caveat for being so rich in detail is that web UI's, command line interfaces, and other such things can change over time and some of the book's details may quickly take on a subtly different form. I encountered a few discrepancies myself, but nothing was tear-your-hair-out bad. I'm very glad I read the book, and I hope to make it out to Peter's ServerlessConf sometime in the near future. Looking forward to more great insights!

It is fairly educational. What I want to learn more is how the website does the credit card payment transaction. Could author point to some direction or example code would be great.

Actually I had to post short review. I bought this book in Nov 2017, and was surprised how well material is explained, I come from different "word". C#/MSSQL. But due to support C# by lambda I could write my first POC in a week. Definitely, Lambda is second big shift after S3. And this book is good start point. Thanks.

Do not buy this book - I have never had a technical book with so many things wrong and code that just doesn't work. The book forum helped some, but it will just be an exercise in frustration. Additionally you spend more time working on things other than Serverless and platforms other than AWS so the title really is misleading. I feel like I've had to figure most of it out myself and I could have done that on my own without a book. I've never been so frustrated, infuriated, and let down with a technical book. I have 10 - 20 other Manning Press books and after this one I'd really think twice and make sure it was going to be what I wanted before buying another one. Most likely would not buy another book from this author.

if you want some more experience with lambda and api gateway, give this a read. if you hate javascript, stay away pros: Shows an implementation of OpenID connect flow on lambda Good coverage of AWS Api Gatway shows how to effectively work with nodejs npm and lambda cons: doesnt explain openID connect flow and json web tokens well at all heavy and exclusive use of javascript (more advanced and confusing js than "lambda in action book")

I would highly recommend this book

If you want to know how to click through the AWS console, buy this book. If you want to understand more abstract use cases and patterns for solving problems using AWS serverless services, do not buy this book

This book teaches you the basics of AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway and other Serverless offerings by building a Serverless Web Application from the ground up. It is a teach by example book, if you will, and does a very good job at it. In my opinion however, there are two major shortcomings in the book that made me drop a star. 1. All of the code, examples and setup instructions are only node.js centric. It would have been nice to have the code in at least one other language. If it helps, I have written and hosted all of the code from the book in Java on github. User: shalabh-jaiswal , Repo: serverless-video-transcoder. github.com/shalabh-jaiswal 2. The book should have stuck to the AWS platform, using Cognito and DynamoDB instead of Auth0 and Firebase. After all, the title of the book reads: “… on AWS” Having said that, this book will definitely help anyone looking to delve into AWS Serverless technologies.