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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram, Jason Marston
Book Image

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)

Using strongly typed classes in Azure Functions

In our initial chapters, we developed an HTTP trigger named RegisterUser that acts as a web API and can be consumed by any application that's capable of making HTTP requests. However, there might be some other requirements, where you might have different applications that create messages in a queue with the details that are required for creating a user. For the sake of simplicity, we will be using Azure Storage Explorer to create a queue message.

In this recipe, we will look at how to get the details of the user from the queue by using strongly typed objects.

Getting ready

Before moving on, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a storage account (I have created azurefunctionscookbook...