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Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure

By : Daniel Bass
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Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure

By: Daniel Bass

Overview of this book

Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure redefines your experience of designing serverless systems. It shows you how to tackle challenges of varying levels, not just the straightforward ones. You'll be learning how to deliver features quickly by building systems, which retain the scalability and benefits of serverless. You'll begin your journey by learning how to build a simple, completely serverless application. Then, you'll build a highly scalable solution using a queue, load messages onto the queue, and read them asynchronously. To boost your knowledge further, the book also features durable functions and ways to use them to solve errors in a complex system. You'll then learn about security by building a security solution from serverless components. Next, you’ll gain an understanding of observability and ways to leverage application insights to bring you performance benefits. As you approach the concluding chapters, you’ll explore chaos engineering and the benefits of resilience, by actively switching off a few of the functions within a complex system, submitting a request, and observing the resulting behavior. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to build and maintain increasingly complex systems that match evolving platform requirements.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Introduction


In the previous chapter, you learned about observability in serverless and how important it is to help you identify issues. Good observability will help you identify issues, but in order to prevent those issues from occurring in the first place we need to use chaos engineering.

In this chapter, you will be carrying out a manual chaos experiment where you inject an error into your serverless architecture and then introduce a mitigation. You will build a full continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline in Azure DevOps, before building a continuous chaos pipeline in Azure DevOps, which will allow you to build a regression suite of automated chaos experiments to prevent weaknesses reappearing.