Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

By : Trivedi, Kulkarni

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Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

By: Trivedi, Kulkarni

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Overview of this book

Serverless is a cloud computing execution model where the cloud provider dynamically manages the allocation and provisioning of servers. Many companies now use serverless architectures to cut costs and improve scalability. Thanks to its concise and expressive syntax and a smooth learning curve, Kotlin is a great fit for developing serverless applications. With this book, you’ll be able to put your knowledge to work by implementing serverless technology in your applications and become productive in no time. Complete with detailed explanation of essential concepts and examples, this book will help you understand the serverless architecture fundamentals and how to design serverless architectures for your applications. You’ll also explore how AWS Lambda functions work. The book will guide you in designing, building, securing, and deploying your application to production, along with implementing non-functional requirements such as auditing and logging. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to scale up and orchestrate serverless applications using an open source framework and handle distributed serverless systems in production. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build scalable and cost-efficient Kotlin applications with a serverless framework.

Preface

Introduction

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Basics of Serverless

What is serverless computing?

The evolution of serverless computing

Pros and cons of serverless

The serverless computing ecosystem

Summary

AWS Serverless Offerings

AWS Lambda overview

Summary

Designing a Kotlin Serverless Application

The problem statement

Summary

Developing Your Serverless Application

Preparing the serverless environment

Implementing lambda functions

Implementing other lambda functions in Kotlin

Implementation of the app

Integrating the API

Summary

Improving Your App with Firebase Service

About Firebase

Firebase authentication

Firebase cloud functions

Saving data into the real-time database

Monitoring crashes

Monitoring the application's performance

Summary

Analyzing Your Application

What are non-functional requirements?

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudWatch

A practical walk-through

Summary

Secure Your Application

AWS security concepts

Infrastructure hardening

Practical walk–through

Summary

Scale Your Application

Infrastructure as code

Serverless Framework

Practical walk-through

Caveats while scaling Serverless applications

Summary

Advanced AWS Services

AWS Cloud9

AWS Alexa

Summary

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Developing Your Serverless Application

In Chapter 3, Designing a Kotlin Serverless Application, we analyzed our app requirements and jotted down all the APIs that we need for app development. Also, we described the UI part. In this chapter, we are going to design an app that has end-to-end integration with the AWS instance. We will demonstrate how using Kotlin, both on the client side and on the AWS infrastructure side, will benefit you. We will learn a lot of cool tricks in Kotlin, which save time and reduce the amount of code.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following:

Configuring the AWS Cognito pool, which we will use for user authentication
Code lambda functions, which will keep all our business logic
Making lambda talk with our persistence layer to store the data on the cloud
Our companion app, which is in Android, and we will learn a bit of Android as well

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