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Understanding Serverless APIs

by Elle Krout

Application Program Interfaces are a common way for applications to interact and are a common use case for serverless. This course will teach you about serverless API architectures and best practices in a cloud-agnostic manner.

What you'll learn

Serverless Application Program Interfaces are common methods for application interfaction. In this course, Understanding Serverless APIs, you’ll learn how serverless APIs are structured with regards to REST. First, you’ll explore a high-level look at APIs and API components. Next, you’ll discover how API gateways function to route requests and work as event triggers. Finally, you’ll learn how to manage serveless APIs effectively, with API best practices. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of serverless API architectures needed to begin to create your own effective serverless APIs.

About the author

With a background at a cloud hosting company, I started learning Linux and DevOps from the bottom up as a technical writer set out to document configuration management systems. Falling in love with Linux, DevOps and tech as a whole, I eventually took my ability to explain technical concepts to wide audiences to the training area, creating courses on Red Hat, SaltStack, HashiCorp, LXD, Docker, and more.

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