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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)

Summary


Chaos engineering is the practice of systematically introducing, measuring, and resolving errors in your application—usually at the infrastructure level. Implemented effectively with engineers, it creates the right incentives for them to steadily build more resilient systems. In this chapter, you've carried out a manual chaos engineering experiment. You've built a continuous deployment pipeline on Azure DevOps. Finally, you built an automated chaos pipeline to ensure that your serverless architecture never suffers a regression that makes it vulnerable to a chaos event it was previously resistant to.

You have progressed through this advanced serverless book, starting with writing a simple Azure Function, and finishing with a sophisticated automated chaos pipeline. You will now be capable of building advanced, complex serverless architectures in practice rather than theory. Serverless is, however, a constantly moving field, which is currently extremely young, so it is strongly recommended...