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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

Introduction

As a software professional, you may be aware of different software development methodologies that are followed across the industry. Irrespective of the methodology being followed, there will be multiple environments, such as development, staging, and production, where the application life cycle needs to be followed, with these critical stages related to development:

  1. Develop the application based on the requirements.
  2. Build the application and fix any errors.
  3. Deploy/release the package to an environment (development/staging/production).
  4. Test against the requirements.
  5. Promote the release to the next environment (from development to staging and staging to production).

    Note

    For the sake of simplicity, the initial stages, such as requirement gathering, planning, designing, and architecture, are excluded, just to emphasize the stages that are relevant to this chapter.

For each change made to the software, we need to build and deploy the application...