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Mastering PHP 7

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Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785882814

Pages 536 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Web Programming

Author (1):

Branko Ajzele

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. The All New PHP

2. Embracing Standards

3. Error Handling and Logging

4. Magic Behind Magic Methods

5. The Realm of CLI

6. Prominent OOP Features

7. Optimizing for High Performance

8. Going Serverless

9. Reactive Programming

10. Common Design Patterns

11. Building Services

12. Working with Databases

13. Resolving Dependencies

14. Working with Packages

15. Testing the Important Bits

16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling

17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

Using the serverless framework

The AWS Lambda is a compute service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). What makes it specific is that it lets us run code without provisioning or managing any servers whatsoever. The auto-scaling features enable it to withstand thousands of requests per second. With an added benefit of pay-per-execution pricing, this service caught some traction among developers. Over time, the serverless framework was developed to make the use of the AWS Lambda service easy.

Note

The serverless framework is available at https://serverless.com.

Assuming we have an AWS account created, and a clean installation of the Ubuntu server at hand, let's go ahead and outline the steps needed to set up and utilize the serverless framework.

Before we can deploy applications on the AWS Lambda, we need to make sure we have a user with the right set of permissions. AWS permissions are quite robust, in that we can tune them per resource. The serverless framework uses several other AWS resources...

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Authors (1)

Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele is a respected and highly accomplished software developer, book author, solution specialist, consultant, and team leader. He currently works for Interactive Web Solutions Ltd (iWeb), where he holds the role of senior developer and is the director of iWeb's Croatia office. Branko holds several respected IT certifications, including Zend Certified PHP Engineer, Magento Certified Developer, Magento Certified Developer Plus, Magento Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist, Magento 2 Certified Professional Developer, to mention just a few. He was crowned the e-commerce Developer of the Year by the Digital Entrepreneur Awards in October 2014 for his excellent knowledge and expertise in e-commerce development.

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