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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

In the previous chapters, you learned how to develop Azure Functions and where they are useful, and looked at validating the functionality of those functions.

In this chapter, we will start looking at ways of testing different Azure Functions. This includes, for example, running tests of HTTP trigger functions using Postman and using Microsoft Storage Explorer to test Azure Blob triggers, Queue triggers, and other storage-service-related triggers. You will also learn how to perform a simple load test on an HTTP trigger, to help you understand how the serverless architecture works by provisioning the instances in the backend, without developers needing to worry about the scaling settings on different factors. The Azure Function runtime will automatically take care of scaling the instances.

You will also learn how to set up a test that checks the availability of our...