Serverless Hack-a-thon

Solution Part I

This project contains source code and supporting files for a serverless application that you can deploy with the SAM CLI. It includes the following files and folders.

• src - source code for app.py
• events - there are no events. You can ignore.
• tests - there are no tests. You can ignore.
• template.yaml - A template that defines the application's AWS resources. Let's be honest, this is a template.

The application uses several AWS resources, including Lambda functions that calls Textract. These resources are defined in the template.yaml file in this project. You can update the template to add AWS resources through the same deployment process that updates your application code.

Deploy the sample application - Part I

For the Serverless hack-a-thon, you can deploy this application, which will call an S3 bucket, send a sample license to textract. Textract will return a JSON object which the applicaiton which will then create key value pairs and return the name and license ID.

First steps, let's clone the repo from Github:

git clone git@github.com:mattddiamond/serverless-hack-part-1.git
cd serverless-hack-part-1

The first command will clone this git repo. To run the second command, you'll need to change directories.

You will need to create a new S3 bucket and copy the file 'washington-drivers-license.jpeg' to the bucket. To build and deploy your application for the first time, run the following in your shell:

sam build
sam local invoke

Next steps

Remember, the CTO asked for this data to persist in a database. You can add to the app.py now to have it write out the key value pairs (kvs) to a Serverless Database (ala Dynamo). Check out this link for an example of how to code this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DAX.client.run-application-python.02-write-data.html