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Hands-On Serverless Computing

By : Kuldeep Chowhan
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Hands-On Serverless Computing

By: Kuldeep Chowhan

Overview of this book

Serverless applications and architectures are gaining momentum and are increasingly being used by companies of all sizes. Serverless software takes care of many problems that developers face when running systems and servers, such as fault tolerance, centralized logging, horizontal scalability, and deployments. You will learn how to harness serverless technology to rapidly reduce production time and minimize your costs, while still having the freedom to customize your code, without hindering functionality. Upon finishing the book, you will have the knowledge and resources to build your own serverless application hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and will have experienced the benefits of event-driven technology for yourself. This hands-on guide dives into the basis of serverless architectures and how to build them using Node.js as a programming language, Visual Studio Code for code editing, and Postman for quickly and securely developing applications without the hassle of configuring and maintaining infrastructure on three public cloud platforms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Azure portal

Before we start looking into the Azure Functions portal, let's look at the process of getting an Azure account. Microsoft Azure offers 12 months of free services (there are limits to how much you can use) and also gives you $200 credit for 30 days to get started. The free account also provides you with 25+ always free services.

You can sign up for a Microsoft Azure Account at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.

To be able to create a Microsoft Azure Account, you will need a Microsoft Account. Once you have created the Azure account, a Free Plan subscription is automatically created for you so that you can start building apps to run in the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment.

Dashboards

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