Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

Course Objectives:

1. Understand event-driven best practices for designing serverless applications using appropriate AWS services.
2. Identify the challenges and trade-offs involved in transitioning to serverless development and make recommendations tailored to your development organization and environment.
3. Build serverless applications using patterns that integrate AWS-managed services, taking into account service characteristics such as quotas, integrations, invocation model, error handling, and event source payload.
4. Compare and contrast options for writing infrastructure as code, including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Amplify, AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).
5. Apply best practices for writing Lambda functions, including error handling, logging, environment re-use, using layers, statelessness, idempotency, and configuring concurrency and memory.
6. Implement best practices for building observability and monitoring into your serverless application.
7. Apply security best practices to serverless applications.
8. Identify key scaling considerations in a serverless application and match each consideration to the methods, tools, or best practices to manage it.
9. Use AWS SAM, AWS CDK, and AWS developer tools to configure a CI/CD workflow and automate the deployment of a serverless application.
10. Create and maintain a list of serverless resources to assist in ongoing serverless development and engagement with the serverless community.