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title: Serverless Computing
description: Serverless computing is an execution model where cloud providers dynamically manage machine resources. Learners will understand how to build event-driven applications, write cloud functions, and deploy scalable services without managing underlying servers.
category: programming-tech
subcategory: cloud-computing
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/serverless-computing
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# Serverless Computing

Serverless computing is an execution model where cloud providers dynamically manage machine resources. Learners will understand how to build event-driven applications, write cloud functions, and deploy scalable services without managing underlying servers.

## Available Resources

1 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Serverless Land

AWS-run hub of serverless learning material: reusable event-driven patterns with deployable templates, Step Functions workflow examples, guides, workshops, and video series. Readers can find a tested reference implementation for common Lambda, API Gateway, and EventBridge integrations.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://serverlessland.com/

**Tags:** serverless, aws-lambda, event-driven-architecture, design-patterns, aws

### 2. serverless.com

Serverless.com is the official site for the Serverless Framework, a toolkit for building and deploying serverless applications across cloud providers. It provides onboarding guides, comprehensive docs, tutorials, plugins, examples, and a marketplace to help you design and manage serverless architectures.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://serverless.com

**Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing

### 3. aws.amazon.com/lambda

Amazon Web Services Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events without provisioning or managing servers. The page offers an overview, pricing, and access to getting-started guides, documentation, tutorials, and examples for building and deploying Lambda functions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html

**Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, technical-skills

## Podcasts

### 1. Serverless Chats

**Author:** Jeremy Daly & Rebecca Marshburn

Serverless Chats is a podcast that geeks out on everything serverless. Join Jeremy Daly and Rebecca Marshburn as they chat with a special guest each week.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.serverlesschats.com

**Tags:** serverless, cloud-architecture, aws-lambda, event-driven-architecture

## Books

### 1. Serverless Architectures on AWS

**Author:** Peter Sbarski

Manning book on building backends from AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB and related managed services, developed around a running example application. Readers learn to design event-driven serverless architectures, handle authentication and storage, and weigh cost and scaling tradeoffs.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1617293822?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing

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