ServerlessIntermediate to Advanced

Serverless Microservices & Event Architecture

Build high-throughput, low-latency microservices that scale to zero when idle using Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB.

Estimated duration: 5 Weeks
Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced
Curriculum: 4 modules
Recommended for: Backend & Cloud Engineers

Learning objectives

By the end of this path, you will be able to:

AWS Lambda lifecycle, layers & cold start optimizations
Amazon EventBridge for asynchronous decoupled event routing
DynamoDB Single-Table Design & Global Secondary Indexes (GSIs)
Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK with TypeScript

Curriculum

1
AWS Lambda lifecycle, layers & cold start optimizations
2
Amazon EventBridge for asynchronous decoupled event routing
3
DynamoDB Single-Table Design & Global Secondary Indexes (GSIs)
4
Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK with TypeScript

Practice with hands-on projects

Suggested projects from the GCET project lab that reinforce this path's skills.

Serverless URL shortener using AWS Lambda and API Gateway
Intermediate
Create an on-demand, highly scalable link redirect and analytics microservice using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB.
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon DynamoDB
- RESTful APIs
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Event-driven file processing using Amazon S3 and AWS Lambda
Intermediate
Automatically trigger serverless compute to resize images or parse JSON data records immediately whenever a file is uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket.
- S3 Event Notifications
- Lambda Triggers
- IAM Roles
- Asynchronous Processing
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