Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS

– • Apply event-driven best practices to a serverless application design using appropriate AWS services
– • Identify the challenges and trade-offs of transitioning to serverless development, and make recommendations that suit your development organization and environment
– • Build serverless applications using patterns that connect AWS managed services together, and account for service characteristics, including service quotas, available integrations, invocation model, error handling, and event source payload
– • Compare and contrast available options for writing infrastructure as code, including AWS CloudFormation, AWS Amplify, AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM), and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)
– • Apply best practices to writing Lambda functions inclusive of error handling, logging, environment re-use, using layers, statelessness, idempotency, and configuring concurrency and memory
– • Apply best practices for building observability and monitoring into your serverless application
– • Apply security best practices to serverless applications
– • Identify key scaling considerations in a serverless application, and match each consideration to the methods, tools, or best practices to manage it
– • Use AWS SAM, AWS CDK, and AWS developer tools to configure a CI/CD workflow, and automate deployment of a serverless application
– • Create and actively maintain a list of serverless resources that will assist in your ongoing serverless development and engagement with the serverless community