Building serverless apps with MongoDB Atlas and AWS Lambda

Using MongoDB Atlas
with AWS Lambda
How to build apps in a serverless world
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Who am I?

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Where do you host your databases & apps?
• Physical server in private datacenter
• Virtual server in private datacenter
• VMWare vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, other
• Physical or virtual server in private cloud
• Rackspace, DigitalOcean, BlueMix, other
• Virtual server in public cloud
• Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

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Poll: Which server-side
programming language do you use?

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Use cases
• Web applications
• Data processing (real-time streaming analytics)
• Scalable back ends (mobile apps, IoT devices)
• Amazon Alexa
• Chatbots

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AWS Lambda Deep Dive

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Anatomy of a Lambda function (Node.js)
• Handler function in index.js
• exports.myHandler = function(event, context,
callback) => {…}
• Handler value in Lambda: index.myHandler

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Anatomy of a Lambda function (Java)
• Handler function in example.Hello class
• package example;
public class Hello {
public String myHandler(type inputVal, Context context) {...}
• Handler value in Lambda: example.Hello::myHandler

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Anatomy of a Lambda function (Python)
• Handler function in hello_python.py file
• def my_handler(event, context):
…
return some_value
• Handler value in Lambda: hello_python.my_handler

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Anatomy of a Lambda function (C#)
• Handler function in Example.Hello class
• Namespace Example;
public class Hello {
public Stream MyHandler(type inputVal, ILambdaContext
context) {...}
• Handler format & value in Lambda:
• Assembly::Namespace.ClassName::MethodName
• HelloWorldApp::Example.Hello::MyHandler

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How to develop with Atlas and Lambda
• Sign up for Atlas and create an M0 cluster
• Grab your Atlas connection string
• Initialize a Node.js project
• Import MongoDB Node.js driver (or Mongoose)
• AWS SDK for JavaScript if necessary
• Write code! (using your Atlas connection string)

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How to test and deploy your Lambda
• Use the lambda-local NPM package to test locally
• Zip your Node.js code with ALL modules
• Except aws-sdk if used
• Use ‘zip -r archive.zip node_modules/ index.js’ from inside
the code folder!
• Create your Lambda function and upload your package
to AWS Lambda

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Best practices
• Db connection string stored as env. variable
• Use –E parameter with lambda-local
• Reference it with process.env['MONGODB_ATLAS_URI']
• Encrypt Db connection string in AWS Lambda
• Use AWS.KMS() to decrypt() the connection string

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Performance optimizations

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What’s the problem?
• AWS Lambda is stateless
• DB connections are initialized at every call…
• Well, almost…
• Lambda containers are alive for 5 minutes
• Ways to “cache” resources in Lambda across recent
calls

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Performance best practices
• Declare the db object outside the handler method
• Set context.callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop = false
• Try to re-use the db object if
db.serverConfig.isConnected() returns true
• Do NOT close the db object!

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References
• Serverless development with Node.js, AWS Lambda and
MongoDB Atlas
• Optimizing AWS Lambda performance with MongoDB Atlas
and Node.js
• Lambda Node.js code sample (callbacks)
• Lambda Node.js code sample (promises

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