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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston
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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Microsoft provides a solution for easily running small segments of code in the cloud with Azure Functions. The second edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases demonstrating the benefits and key features of Azure Functions. You’ll explore the core aspects of Azure Functions, such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure Functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure Functions, and providing continuous integration and continuous deployment with Azure DevOps. This book also provides hands-on, step-by-step tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. You will also learn how to build solutions for complex, real-world, workflow-based scenarios quickly and with minimal code using Durable Functions. In the concluding chapters, you will ensure enterprise-level security within your serverless environment. The most common tips and tricks that you need to be aware of when working with Azure Functions on production environments will also be covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required for working with serverless code architecture, providing continuous delivery to your users.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Introduction

For every business application to run its business operations smoothly, one of the key features is to have a reliable communication system between the business and its customers. The communication channel might be two-way, either by sending a message to the administrators managing the application or sending alerts to the customers via emails or SMS to their mobile phones.

Azure can integrate with two popular communication services: SendGrid for emails, and Twilio for working with SMS. In this chapter, we will be using both of these communication services to learn how to leverage their basic services to send messages between business administrators and end users.

Following is the architecture that we will be using for utilizing Send Grid and Twilio Output bindings with Http Trigger and Queue Trigger: