"Scaleway Functions in Practice"
"Scaleway Functions in Practice" is a comprehensive guide to mastering serverless technologies on the Scaleway Cloud, tailored for architects, developers, and DevOps professionals navigating modern cloud-native environments. This book systematically demystifies the underlying architecture and operational models of Scaleway Functions, offering an accessible yet in-depth exploration of serverless paradigms, from foundational concepts to function lifecycles and advanced execution models. Readers will gain a clear understanding of Scaleway's robust serverless ecosystem, with detailed coverage of everything from triggers and scaling mechanics to integration points with the broader Scaleway platform.
Through practical, workflow-driven chapters, the book walks readers step-by-step through developing, testing, deploying, and optimizing functions. It covers critical professional practices such as dependency management, robust testing strategies, automated CI/CD pipelines, secure secrets management, and graceful versioning and rollbacks. The text delves into optimizing both technical and financial performance-including CPU/memory tuning, concurrency control, error handling, caching, and cost management-offering real-world techniques to maximize application efficiency and resilience. Readers will also benefit from hands-on integration patterns for connecting with object storage, databases, APIs, networking constructs, and a rich variety of cloud services.
Recognizing the evolving demands of production workloads, "Scaleway Functions in Practice" addresses advanced topics such as multi-region deployments, high availability, secure identity management, monitoring, incident response, and operational best practices. The book goes further to catalog enterprise-scale governance frameworks, cross-team collaboration techniques, and open-source community engagement, while equipping readers to anticipate emerging trends and leverage the next generation of serverless patterns-including AI/ML, IoT, and edge-native applications. Joined together, these insights empower readers to deliver secure, observable, and future-proof cloud applications using Scaleway Functions, supporting both present solutions and tomorrow's innovations.