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Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By : Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria
Book Image

Azure for Architects - Third Edition

By: Ritesh Modi, Jack Lee, Rithin Skaria

Overview of this book

Thanks to its support for high availability, scalability, security, performance, and disaster recovery, Azure has been widely adopted to create and deploy different types of application with ease. Updated for the latest developments, this third edition of Azure for Architects helps you get to grips with the core concepts of designing serverless architecture, including containers, Kubernetes deployments, and big data solutions. You'll learn how to architect solutions such as serverless functions, you'll discover deployment patterns for containers and Kubernetes, and you'll explore large-scale big data processing using Spark and Databricks. As you advance, you'll implement DevOps using Azure DevOps, work with intelligent solutions using Azure Cognitive Services, and integrate security, high availability, and scalability into each solution. Finally, you'll delve into Azure security concepts such as OAuth, OpenConnect, and managed identities. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the confidence to design intelligent Azure solutions based on containers and serverless functions.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

In the previous chapter, you learned about various big data solutions available on Azure. In this chapter, you will learn how serverless technology can help you deal with a large amount of data.

Serverless is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology these days, and everyone wants to ride this bandwagon. Serverless brings a lot of advantages in overall computing, software development processes, infrastructure, and technical implementation. There is a lot going on in the industry: at one end of the spectrum is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and at the other is serverless. In between the two are Platform as a Service (PaaS) and containers. I have met many developers and it seems to me that there is some confusion among them about IaaS, PaaS, containers, and serverless computing. Also, there is much confusion about use cases, applicability, architecture, and implementation for the serverless paradigm. Serverless...