Introduction

After years of building single page web applications and wishing that I could break free of the constraints imposed by application servers, my wish has come true. Amazon (and, increasingly, other companies) have developed technologies that make it possible to use a serverless approach that removes a lot of the risks and costs of building and scaling web applications. This idea is so compelling and so transformative that I had to write a book about it.

I wrote this book for the people I know in my life who want to build something on the web. Some have an app they want to build—something they think will be the next big thing. Some are just starting out in web development and have never built any kind of app—world-changing or otherwise. ...

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