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Learning Azure Functions

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Learning Azure Functions

Overview of this book

Functions help you easily run small pieces of code in cloud with Azure functions without worrying about a whole application or the infrastructure to run it. With Azure functions, you can use triggers to execute your code and bindings to simplify the input and output of your code. This book will start with the basics of Azure Functions. You will learn the steps to set up the environment and the tools that we will be using in the further chapters. Once you have a better understanding of this, we will be creating our first hello world function app. Later you will be introduced to triggers, how they are used to activate a function, and how binding can be used to output results of a function.You will also explore the steps to create an assembly with complex functionality that can be used by functions. Next, this book will teach you to scale your functions and use them to process data, integrate systems, and build simple APIs and microservices. Finally, this book will cover some diagnostic techniques with Azure App services and best practices of working with Azure Functions. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the techniques of scaling your Azure functions and making the most of serverless architecture.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Summary


Finally, we have reached the end of the chapter. I hope you enjoyed it !!

In this chapter, we learned binding with the Azure Function. We discussed input and output binding with the JSON structure. We have discussed the Event Hub with the Azure Function. We have created an example of binding of the Azure Function with the Event Hub. After Event Hub, we learned about Service Bus and binding of the Azure Function with the Service Bus queue. We provided simple examples for the Service Bus queue. In the last section of this chapter, we discussed storage and created one example.

In the next chapter, we will create a JavaScript function triggered by Webhook, use Webhook with Azure Functions, and use event with Azure Functions.