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

by Evan Anderson

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 cases when 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 6 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

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

412 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 15, 2023

About the author

Evan Anderson is originally from Los Angeles and now makes his home in New York's Hudson Valley. While growing up in L.A. he became fascinated with the making of movies, with a definite focus on the "classic" (his favorite film year is 1928!) He visited movie studios, collector's shops and revival houses, in particular the Vagabond and Silent Movie Theaters.

While doing some family research, Evan discovered that his late grandfather, Robert Lovelace Barrett, had an extensive career in Hollywood, first as an extra and featured player, then as a studio projectionist at Warner Brothers. It was around this time that Evan began work on "Downriver." As his search into his grandfather's career grew, so did "Downriver" - from short story, to novella, to a full length tale of a small town girl's life during the earliest days of American cinema.

Evan's short story "The Passion of Saint Hayakawa" was published in the collection Prima Materia, Vol. 2. He has written scripts for children's theater and an homage to classic radio of the 1940's, The Adventures of Marjorie. "Downriver" is his first novel.