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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
Book Image

Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Chapter 7: Serverless and Azure Functions

  1. In the Consumption pricing model, you pay for each execution of your functions individually.
  2. GB-s is the unit of consumption on Azure Functions; it is gigabytes-per-second and defines how much memory was used in a unit of time.
  3. Yes, you can, however it is not the advised model of services.
  4. It is called a Function App.
  5. There was experimental support for this language in the V1 version of Azure Functions. Currently (in V2), it is not supported.
  6. Yesthis is how Azure Storage bindings work.
  7. When your Function App is deployed automatically, it is set as read-only to avoid manual changes within the process.
  8. Not reallyin Azure Function, all settings are available via environmental variables.