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Building Serverless Applications with Python

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Building Serverless Applications with Python

Overview of this book

Serverless architectures allow you to build and run applications and services without having to manage the infrastructure. Many companies have adopted this architecture to save cost and improve scalability. This book will help you design serverless architectures for your applications with AWS and Python. The book is divided into three modules. The first module explains the fundamentals of serverless architecture and how AWS lambda functions work. In the next module, you will learn to build, release, and deploy your application to production. You will also learn to log and test your application. In the third module, we will take you through advanced topics such as building a serverless API for your application. You will also learn to troubleshoot and monitor your app and master AWS lambda programming concepts with API references. Moving on, you will also learn how to scale up serverless applications and handle distributed serverless systems in production. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the knowledge required to build scalable and cost-efficient Python applications with a serverless framework.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introduction to Microsoft Azure Functions

Microsoft Azure Functions is the Azure counterpart of AWS's Lambda service. In this section, we will learn how to locate and navigate the Microsoft Azure Functions console. So, let's start by performing the following steps:

  1. You can locate the Azure Functions app by navigating to the All services tab on the left menu and typing out the function filter. You will now notice the Microsoft Azure Function's service under the name, Function Apps:
  1. Once you click on that, you will be re-directed to the Function Apps console. For now, it will be empty if you haven't created any functions. The console will look something like this:
  1. Now, let's start with creating an Azure Function. To do so, we need to click on the Create a resource option on the left menu, then click on the Compute option from that list, and then select...