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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram
Book Image

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Overview of this book

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications. With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a "hello world" example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Migrating C# console application to Azure functions using PowerShell

Currently, many business applications are being hosted in private clouds or on-premises datacenters. Some of them have started migrating their applications to Azure using various methods.

The following are just a few methods for quick migration to Azure:

  • Lift and shift the legacy application to the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment: This method should be straightforward, as you have complete control over the virtual machines that you create. You could host all your web applications, schedulers, databases, and so on without making any changes to your application code. You can even install any third-party software or libraries. Though this option provides full control for your application, it would be expensive in most cases as the background application might not be running all the time.
  • Convert legacy applications to a Platform as a Service (PaaS)–compatible environment: This method...