Building Serverless Applications on Knative: A Guide to Designing and Writing Serverless Cloud Applications

Explore the theory and practice of designing and writing  serverless applications using examples from the Knative project. With  this practical guide, mid-level to senior application developers and  team managers will learn when and why to target serverless platforms  when developing microservices or applications. Along the way, you'll  also discover warning signs that suggest why serverless might cause you  more trouble than joy.

Drawing on author Evan Anderson's 15 years  of experience developing and maintaining applications in the cloud—and  more than six years of experience with serverless platforms at  scale—this book acts as your guide into the high-velocity world of  serverless application development. You'll come to appreciate why  Knative is the most widely adopted open source serverless platform  available.

With this book, you will:

• Learn what serverless is, how it works, and why teams are adopting it
• Understand the benefits of Knative for cloud native development teams
• Learn how to build a serverless application on Knative
• Explore the challenges serverless introduces for debugging and the tools that can help improve it
• Learn why event-driven architecture and serverless compute are complementary but distinct
• Understand when a serverless approach might not be the right system design