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Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Praveen Kumar Sreeram
Book Image

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Praveen Kumar Sreeram

Overview of this book

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications. With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a "hello world" example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Introduction

One of the main goals of Azure Functions is to enable developers to just focus on developing application requirements and logic and abstract everything else.

As a developer or business user, inventing and developing applications from scratch for each business requirement is practically impossible. We would first need to research the existing systems and see whether they fit business requirements. Often, it would not be easy to understand the APIs of the other systems and integrate them, especially when they have been developed by someone else.

Azure provides many connectors that can be leveraged to integrate business applications with other systems pretty easily.

In this chapter, we'll learn how to easily integrate the different services that are available within the Azure ecosystem.