Introduction to Serverless Architecture

You've scaled to 10M requests/day. Suddenly, your DB connection pool is maxed out, and your application is experiencing significant latency. This is a common problem many developers face when building high-traffic applications. In this 3-part tutorial series, we'll explore how to master serverless architecture using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Setting Up Your Development Environment

To get started, you'll need to set up an AWS account and install the AWS CLI. Here's a step-by-step guide:

Create an AWS account if you haven't already.
Install the AWS CLI using the following command:

pip install awscli

Output:

Collecting awscli
  Downloading awscli-1.27.94.tar.gz (1.5 MB)
Installing collected packages: awscli

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