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Serverless Programming Cookbook

By : Heartin Kanikathottu
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Serverless Programming Cookbook

By: Heartin Kanikathottu

Overview of this book

Managing physical servers will be a thing of the past once you’re able to harness the power of serverless computing. If you’re already prepped with the basics of serverless computing, Serverless Programming Cookbook will help you take the next step ahead. This recipe-based guide provides solutions to problems you might face while building serverless applications. You'll begin by setting up Amazon Web Services (AWS), the primary cloud provider used for most recipes. The next set of recipes will cover various components to build a Serverless application including REST APIs, database, user management, authentication, web hosting, domain registration, DNS management, CDN, messaging, notifications and monitoring. The book also introduces you to the latest technology trends such as Data Streams, Machine Learning and NLP. You will also see patterns and practices for using various services in a real world application. Finally, to broaden your understanding of Serverless computing, you'll also cover getting started guides for other cloud providers such as Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM cloud. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired the skills you need to build serverless applications efficiently using various cloud offerings.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Your first Serverless application in Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service from Microsoft and provides services similar to AWS in the areas of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and Serverless computing. It supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks. In this recipe, we will create a simple Serverless application on Azure. We will also learn about the most appropriate managed Serverless services in Azure for the various use cases discussed in this book.

Getting ready

Following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

  • JDK 8 or above.
  • Apache Maven 3 or above.
  • A working account on Azure.
  • Azure CLI.
    You can install Azure CLI by using...