Building Serverless Applications on Knative: A Guide to Designing and Writing Serverless Cloud Applications - Softcover

Anderson, Evan

 
9781098142070: Building Serverless Applications on Knative: A Guide to Designing and Writing Serverless Cloud Applications
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1098142071 ISBN 13: 9781098142070
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 2023

Synopsis

Explore the theory and practice of designing and writing serverless applications using examples from the Knative project. With this practical guide, mid-level to senior application developers and team managers will learn when and why to target serverless platforms when developing microservices or applications. Along the way, you'll also discover warning signs that suggest cases when serverless might cause you more trouble than joy.

Drawing on author Evan Anderson's 15 years of experience developing and maintaining applications in the cloud, and more than 6 years of experience with serverless platforms at scale, this book acts as your guide into the high-velocity world of serverless application development. You'll come to appreciate why Knative is the most widely adopted open source serverless platform available.

With this book, you will:

  • Learn what serverless is, how it works, and why teams are adopting it
  • Understand the benefits of Knative for cloud native development teams
  • Learn how to build a serverless application on Knative
  • Explore the challenges serverless introduces for debugging and the tools that can help improve it
  • Learn why event-driven architecture and serverless compute are complementary but distinct
  • Understand when a serverless approach might not be the right system design

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About the Author

Evan Anderson is a principal software engineer at Stacklok, where he's working to secure the software supply chains that power all modern software. Previously, he was a Senior Staff Software Engineer at VMware, where he was a technical lead on the Tanzu Application Platform and a lead on the Knative project. Prior to VMware, he worked at Google for 15 years, including on Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run.

While at Google, Evan was a founding member of the Knative project, and worked on designing the Serving API and conformance specification and framework.

Outside of work, he's a parent and runner; he particularly enjoys getting away from it all on trails for multi-hour runs.

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Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1098142071
ISBN 13 
9781098142070
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
249