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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

In previous chapters, you learned how to create Azure Functions right from the Azure Management portal. Here are a few of the features that we encountered:

  • We can quickly create a function just by selecting one of the built-in templates provided by the Azure Functions runtime.
  • Developers need not worry about writing plumbing code or understanding how to work with the frameworks.
  • Configuration changes can be made right within the UI using the standard editor.

Despite the advantages provided by the Azure Management portal, moving over from a familiar integrated development environment (IDE) to something new can prove to be a daunting task for developers. To ease this transition, the Microsoft team has come up with a few tools that help developers to integrate Azure Functions into Visual Studio, with the aim of leveraging critical IDE features that are imperative for accelerating development efforts. Here are a few of the features:

  • Developers...