Four-Project Series
Build Serverless Applications on AWS you own this product
- prerequisites
- AWS • basic knowledge of serverless and microservices
- skills learned
- Infrastructure as Code • automated deployment • implementing better serverless applications
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team
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SimpleTravel Co is a travel app with a problem—it’s too popular! The app has scaled rapidly and is now running into multiple issues with infrastructure and rolling out changes. In this liveProject, you’ll step into the role of a software engineer tasked with helping them out by rebuilding SimpleTravel’s app as a serverless application on AWS. You’ll start using Infrastructure as Code to control the app’s resources, then complete and automate the software release process with a reliable deployment pipeline. Next, you’ll utilize TypeScript to help catch errors that don’t show up until deployment. Finally, you’ll use Amazon EventBridge to build a pair of microservices using event-driven development.
These projects are designed for learning purposes and are not complete, production-ready applications or solutions.
Overall, I think the project was well structured and the outcome was well worth the effort.
here's what's included
Project 1 Infrastructure as Code
SimpleTravel Co has scaled too fast! Their travel booking app has proven wildly successful, but now they’re facing a lack of accountability, inconsistencies in their infrastructure, and issues rolling back problematic deployments. Luckily, the CTO has an idea—one he’s given you the job of implementing. Your task in this liveProject is to investigate and establish Infrastructure as Code (IAC) for SimpleTravel, so that they can describe their infrastructure using friendly YAML or JSON syntax and sidestep all the issues of manual deployments. Let’s get started!
Project 2 CI/CD Pipelines
SimpleTravel Co has just established IaC—now they’re ready to start automating all the steps of their deployment pipeline! In this liveProject, you’ll help them do just that. You’ll utilize the Amazon CodePipeline and CodeBuild services to build a multi-step deployment pipeline, automating dull manual tasks and carefully deploying your application while checking for bugs and errors.
Project 3 Build and Deploy TypeScript Applications
In this liveProject, you’ll help travel company SimpleTravel transition their booking app from a JavaScript codebase to TypeScript. SimpleTravel is experiencing problems with its development flow due to typing errors not being caught at development time. You’ll work to fix this problem by taking an existing Node.js application and rewriting it using TypeScript features like classes and interfaces. Finally, you'll implement a new building mechanism to compile your TypeScript code and run it on AWS Lambda.
Project 4 Event-Driven Applications
SimpleTravel has grown—and now your boss wants multiple teams to handle different microservices that all interconnect and communicate through the exchange of domain events. You’ll be overseeing this by developing a prototype event-driven application that’s fully serverless. Your system will be built on three core principles: automation, decoupling, and type safety. You’ll begin by setting up shared infrastructure for your team, then implement microservices for the site’s checkout and shipping. Your new system will be poised for success, combining efficiency, flexibility, and reliability.
book resources
When you start each of the projects in this series, you'll get full access to the following book for 90 days.
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Build Serverless Applications on AWS project for free
Build Serverless Applications on AWS project for free
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- five seats for your team
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- choose twelve free products per year
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Build Serverless Applications on AWS project for free
I feel now capable of diving deeper and using these tools and techniques.
Prerequisites
These liveProjects are for software developers and cloud engineers who know the basics of cloud computing and want to master the ins and outs of serverless apps. To complete this liveProject, you will need an AWS account.
TOOLS
- Basics of YAML
- Basics of JavaScript
- Basics of Node.js
- Basics of AWS Lambda
- Basics of serverless applications
features
- Self-paced
- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
- While within the liveProject platform, get help from other participants and our expert mentors.
- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
