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Learning Azure Functions

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Learning Azure Functions

Overview of this book

Functions help you easily run small pieces of code in cloud with Azure functions without worrying about a whole application or the infrastructure to run it. With Azure functions, you can use triggers to execute your code and bindings to simplify the input and output of your code. This book will start with the basics of Azure Functions. You will learn the steps to set up the environment and the tools that we will be using in the further chapters. Once you have a better understanding of this, we will be creating our first hello world function app. Later you will be introduced to triggers, how they are used to activate a function, and how binding can be used to output results of a function.You will also explore the steps to create an assembly with complex functionality that can be used by functions. Next, this book will teach you to scale your functions and use them to process data, integrate systems, and build simple APIs and microservices. Finally, this book will cover some diagnostic techniques with Azure App services and best practices of working with Azure Functions. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the techniques of scaling your Azure functions and making the most of serverless architecture.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Summary


DevOps is a culture and it is more effective when people, processes, and technology come along together to change the culture.

In serverless computing too, we can utilize DevOps practices such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

In this chapter, we have configured Continuous Integration using the Build definition and Continuous Delivery using the Release definition. We have executed them manually and also configured the Build and Release definitions triggers.

We have also used the Git repository available in VSTS for code management.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the different options available for monitoring, pricing-related details, and best practices.