A Journey in Digital Transformation using Cloud and DevOps
Microservices
If you have been following this blog, you are aware that I am enamored by this new kid on the block called GraphQL. It has the potential to bring much needed transformation to the REST programming model that is the current gold standard for implementing APIs Earlier, we had created microservices using REST APIs. In … Continue reading [19] – Implementing Microservices using GraphQL, AWS AppSync and DynamoDB
Source code: https://git.io/fj2UZ In our last blog post, we saw how Serverless framework (SLS) is the best way to create/deploy serverless projects. In this one, we will see how we can provision multiple environments easily using serverless framework without paying any money for it. 1. Stages and Environments Any decent size IT projects developed using … Continue reading [14] [ProjectX] – Provision multiple zero-cost serverless environments easily
Source code: https://git.io/fjz13 Until now, we have learnt the following methods of deploying serverless applications to AWS cloud Using AWS Console Using AWS CLI Using AWS CloudFormation Using Claudia.js framework Using AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Now let’s look at the last and best method for deployment. This uses a framework called Serverless framework (https://serverless.com/). … Continue reading [13] [ProjectX] – Serverless framework – Best Deployment option
Source code: https://git.io/fjz4t Credit: https://github.com/jenseickmeyer/todo-app-nodejs AWS SAM (https://git.io/vb4O9) This time, we will look at one more method for deploying serverless projects. It is called AWS Serverless Application Model or SAM in short. AWS SAM is an open-source specification for deployment of serverless projects. It is like a domain specific deployment language created by optimizing cloud … Continue reading [12] [ProjectX] – Deploy Swagger APIs using AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
Source code: https://git.io/fjEzw In our last blog post we created API for our book catalog. But all the data is hard-coded in lambda functions. So lets make changes to it so that we can use a database for persisting book catalog data. Amazon has a service called DynamoDB, which is a NoSQL database hosted and … Continue reading [11] [ProjectX] – Using AWS DynamoDB NoSQL database for Persistence
Source Code: https://git.io/fjBsN In order to learn serverless computing on AWS, we will need a sample project. So, let’s take the canonical example used everywhere, that of a books catalog. So, we are on a mission to develop API for managing book catalog. This basically means, we should be able to do CRUD operations on … Continue reading [10] [ProjectX] – Create Book Catalog API using Claudia.js
Source code: https://git.io/fj84C In our last blog post, we saw how to automate deployment using AWS CLI. In this one, we will explore one more method of automatic deployment using AWS CloudFormation service. CloudFormation is like a domain-specific language created for deployment. It is a declarative language wherein you create a file in YAML or … Continue reading [8] [ProjectX] – Automating Deployment using AWS CloudFormation
Let’s begin our journey of learning Serverless computing. I am going to be using ProjectX as the moniker for it. So, whenever you see this word in title of blogpost, you will know this post is one in the series of posts helping you to start from Zero and become a Hero in the Serverless … Continue reading [4] [ProjectX] – From Zero to Hero in Serverless
Adventures In Cloud 