Many businesses are rapidly adopting a microservices-first approach to development, driven by the availability of new commercial services like Azure Functions and AWS Lambda. In this book, we'll show you how to quickly get up and running with your own serverless development on Microsoft Azure. We start by working through a single function, and work towards integration with other Azure services like App Insights and Cosmos DB to handle common user requirements like analytics and highly performant distributed storage. We finish up by providing you with the context you need to get started on a larger project of your own choosing, leaving you equipped with everything you need to migrate to a cloud-first serverless solution.
After completing this book, you will be able to:
- Identify the key advantages and disadvantages of serverless development
- Build a fully-functioning serverless application and utilize a wide variety of Azure services
- Create, deploy and manage your own Azure Functions in the cloud
- Implement core design principles for writing effective serverless code