Yan Cui

Yan Cui is a developer advocate at Lumigo and an independent consultant who helps clients around the world go faster for less by successfully adopting serverless technologies. He has over a decade of experience running production workloads at scale on AWS and has worked as architect and principal engineer within a variety of industries including banking, e-commerce, sports streaming, and mobile gaming. Yan is an AWS Serverless Hero and a regular speaker at conferences internationally. He is the author of Production-Ready Serverless (Manning, 2018) and co-author of F# Deep Dives (Manning, 2014), and he has also self-published several popular courses such as the AppSync Masterclass. He can be found on Twitter (@theburningmonk) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/theburningmonk) and writes regularly on his blog (theburningmonk.com).

books & videos by Yan Cui

Production-Ready Serverless
  • Course duration: 9h 16m
    45 exercises
Included with a Manning Online subscription
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / AWS / AWS Lambda

See it. Do it. Learn it! Production-Ready Serverless: Operational Best Practices introduces you to leading patterns and practices for creating operationally sound serverless applications using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Kinesis. You'll enjoy the professionally-produced video instruction from AWS expert Yan Cui, along with live exercises, text-based navigation, and the other innovative features built into Manning's liveVideo platform.

Production-Ready Serverless: Operational Best Practices teaches you how to build applications that take advantage of AWS Lambda and other AWS platform features like API Gateway and Kinesis. AWS expert Yan Cui guides you from writing your first AWS Lambda functions through handling the operational challenges Lambda can bring as you integrate serverless development practices into your applications. You'll build a basic e-commerce site piece by piece, including a Lambda-based web API using the API Gateway service. This hands-on course introduces processing events in real-time using Lambda and Kinesis Streams, implementing security against common OWASP attacks, modern serverless design patterns, and best practices for maximizing performance and minimizing cost!

Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition
  • February 2022
  • ISBN 9781617295423
  • 256 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
catalog / Software Development / Cloud / AWS / AWS serverless systems

In Serverless Architectures with AWS, Second Edition you’ll learn how to design serverless systems using Lambda and other services on the AWS platform. You’ll explore event-driven computing and discover how others have used serverless designs successfully. This new edition offers real-world use cases and practical insights from several large-scale serverless systems. Chapters on innovative serverless design patterns and architectures will help you become a complete cloud professional.