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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

Debugging Azure Function hosted in Azure using Visual Studio

In one of the previous recipes, Connecting to the Azure Storage from Visual Studio, you learned how to connect a storage account from the local code. In this recipe, you'll learn how to debug the live code running in the Azure cloud environment. You'll perform the following steps in the BlobTriggerCSharp function of the FunctionAppinVisualStudio function application:

  • Change the path of the container in the Azure Management portal to that of the new container.
  • Open the function application in Visual Studio 2019.
  • Attach the debugger from within Visual Studio 2019 to the required Azure function.
  • Create a blob in the new storage container.
  • Debug the application after the breakpoints are hit.

Getting ready

Create a container named cookbookfiles-live in the storage account. You'll be uploading a blob to this container.

How to do it…

In this recipe, you'll make the...