Learning_Resources.md

Learning Resources

This page outlines a collection of learning resources curated by the .NET SDK/Lambda team to best help guide learning and development with the various tools included in this repo.

Table of Contents

• General
• Blog Posts
• Community Posts
• Templates and Repos
• AWS Talks
• Community Talks

General

Lambda Developer Guide

• Programming Model for Authoring Lambda Functions in C#
• Creating a Deployment Package (C#)

AWS Blog Posts

• Announcing AWS Lambda support for .NET Core 3.1
• Developing .NET Core AWS Lambda functions
• .NET Core Global Tools for AWS
  • Important read of users of the dotnet Lambda CLI tool.
• AWS Lambda .NET Core 2.1 Support Released
  • Contains useful information for migrating .NET Core 2.0 Lambda projects to .NET Core 2.1.
• F# Tooling Support for AWS Lambda
• New AWS X-Ray .NET Core Support
  • Contains information on setting up X-Ray with .NET Core Lambda functions.
• Serverless ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

Community Posts

• My First AWS Lambda Using .NET Core By Raymond Sanchez, September 2018
• Developing .NET Core AWS Lambda functions By Walker Cabay, June 2018
  • Focuses on debugging and diagnostics as well as using the SAM, serverless application model, cli.
• Going serverless with .NET Core, AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework By Joseph Woodward, November 2017
  • Shows how to use the Serverless framework with .NET Core Lambda.
• Creating a Serverless Application with .NET Core, AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway By Jerrie Pelser, April 2017
  • Tutorial for building a Web API and not using ASP.NET Core.
• Modular Powershell in AWS Lambda Functions By Brian Olson, January 2020
  • Tutorial for using modular powershell functions in AWS Lambda.
• AWS Lambda for .NET Developers By Marc Roussy, March 2019
  • An introduction to the basic concepts of building AWS Lambda functions with .NET Core.

Templates & Repositories

• serverlessDotNetStarter - By Florian Fuß
  • Start with a simple template for Visual Studio Code
  • Debug locally with Lambda NET Mock Test Tool
  • Deploy easily with the serverless framework

AWS Recorded Talks

• Building a .NET Serverless Application on AWS By Abby Fuller, Tara Walker and Nicki Klien 2018
  • Demo of a serverless application using the AWS .NET SDK, AWS Lambda, AWS CodeBuild, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Dynamo DB Accelerator (DAX), and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio.
• Serverless Applications with AWS - From NDC Minnesota 2018 by Norm Johanson
  • Description of how .NET Core Lambda works
  • Explain how AWS Lambda scales
  • How to use AWS Step Functions
  • A brief section on using the .NET Lambda tools for CI/CD
• .NET Serverless Development on AWS - AWS Online Tech Talks by Norm Johanson 2018
  • Shows how to use both Visual Studio and dotnet CLI tools
  • Create an F# Lambda function
  • How to use X-Ray with Lambda
  • Demonstrate using the dotnet lambda package-ci command for CI/CD with AWS Code services.
• Containers and Serverless with AWS - From NDC Oslo 2018 By Norm Johanson
  • Compares the serverless and container platforms to help inform deciding which platform to use.
• How to Deploy .NET Code to AWS from Within Visual Studio - AWS Online Tech Talks, August 2017

Community Recorded Talks

• Create a Serverless .NET Core 2.1 Web API with AWS Lambda By Daniel Donbavand, August 2018
  • Tutorial for building a .NET Lambda Web API.
• AWS for .NET Developers - AWS Lambda, S3, Rekognition - .NET Concept of the Week - Episode 15 By Greg Kalapos, July 2018
  • In this episode we create a "Not Hotdog" clone from Silicon Valley (HBO) called "SchnitzelOrNot" with .NET and AWS. For this we use AWS Lambda with .NET Core, S3, and Amazon Rekognition.