AWS for Developers: Data-Driven Serverless Applications with Kinesis

Serverless adoption is growing rapidly. Developers can stay sharp by learning about serverless applications. This course focuses on Kinesis, an AWS serverless service.

Introduction

• AWS and serverless applications
• What you should know

1. Get Started with Serverless

• What is a serverless application?
• Backend as a service (BaaS)
• Functions as a service (FaaS)
• AWS Lambda basic concepts
• Serverless Framework 101
• Why is infrastructure as code so important?
• What we are going to build
• Getting started with the project

2. Get Started with Kinesis

• Kinesis introduction
• Designing an event-driven application
• Create stream with CloudFormation
• Create an order
• Setting up DynamoDB and saving into the table
• Send a message to the stream using AWS SDK
• Setting up all the permissions
• Deploying and testing
• Challenge: API Gateway and Lambda
• Solution: API Gateway and Lambda

3. SNS, SQS, and Kinesis

• AWS Lambda and Kinesis streams
• Trigger a new Lambda
• Configure SES
• Send an SES message
• Test out SES Message
• Challenge: Kinesis
• Solution: Kinesis

4. Lifecycle of a Message in the Stream

• What is the difference between SNS, SQS, and Kinesis?
• Create a queue with CloudFormation
• Send a message to SQS
• Trigger a Lambda with a new SQS message
• Challenge: SQS
• Solution: SQS

Conclusion

• Clean up the AWS environment
• Next steps