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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

Function Proxies

Azure Function Proxies is a relatively new addition to Azure Functions. Function Proxies helps in hiding the details of Azure functions and exposing completely different endpoints to customers. Function Proxies can receive requests on endpoints, modify the content, body, headers, and URL of the request by changing the values, and augment them with additional data and pass it internally to Azure functions. Once they get a response from these functions, they can again convert, override, and augment the response and send it back to the client.

It also helps in invoking different functions for CRUD (create, read, delete, and update) operations using different headers, thereby breaking large functions into smaller ones. It provides a level of security by not exposing the original function endpoint and also helps in changing the internal function implementation and endpoints without impacting its caller. Function Proxies helps by providing clients with a single function...