Using AWS Lambda with Zappa
Who am I?
- Josh Finnie
- Senior Software Maven @ TrackMaven
- Lover of both Python & Javascript
What is AWS Lambda?
AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of the Amazon Web Services. [1]
Why AWS Lambda?
- AWS Lambda is CHEAP! [1]
- First 1 million requests per month are free
- $0.20 per 1 million requests thereafter ($0.0000002 per request)
- $0.00001667 per GB-second used for app use.
Note
This is going to be a bit of a live-coding demo. Please stop and ask questions as we go along.
:-)
Tools Used in this demo:
$ pip install flask zappaWhy this demo:
- It is "Something new I want to learn in 2017."
- At TrackMaven, we are moving to a more micro-service type architecture, and some services do not need a server!
Let's Live Code!
What you've missed...
$ zappa init
$ zappa deploy dev // initial deployment...Things to note:
- Yes, you can do private environment variables. [1]
- The API Gateway magic in Zappa is REALLY magic, and would not recommend editing yourself. (I have tried and failed...)
Thanks!
Questions?
Comments?
Concerns?
I am @joshfinnie everywhere, these slides will be at http://joshfinnie.com/talks/ soon-ish!
Flask, Zappa, and AWS Lambda
By Josh Finnie
