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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

Even after the successful development of your application, and alongside continued maintenance and troubleshooting, there remains the concern of app security. Though covering all the security guidelines wouldn't be possible in just one chapter, we'll touch on a few of the techniques that every developer should follow while working with Azure Functions.

Note

The Azure Functions UI, shown in the screenshots in this chapter, is in preview at the time of writing. If this is still the case when reading this, click on the Preview the new Azure Functions management experience link as shown in Figure 9.1 to navigate to the new UI.

Azure Functions – Previewing the new Azure Functions management experience

Figure 9.1: Azure Functions—Preview the new Azure Functions management experience

Let's start learning about and implementing the security best practices for Azure Functions.