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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By : Kamil Mrzygłód
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Hands-On Azure for Developers

By: Kamil Mrzygłód

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure is one of the fastest growing public cloud service providers in the market currently, and also holds the second highest market share after AWS. Azure has a sophisticated set of services that will help you build fault-tolerant and scalable cloud-based applications. Hands-On Azure for Developers will take you on a journey through multiple PaaS services available in Azure, including App Services, Functions, and Service Fabric, and explain in detail how to build a complete and reliable system with ease. You will learn about how to maximize your skills when building cloud-based solutions leveraging different SQL/NoSQL databases, serverless and messaging components, and even search engines such as Azure Search. In the concluding chapters, this book covers more advanced scenarios such as scalability best practices, serving static content with Azure CDN, and distributing loads with Azure Traffic Manager. By the end of the book, you will be able to build modern applications on the Azure cloud using the most popular and promising technologies, which will help make your solutions reliable, stable, and efficient.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Integrating functions with other services

In the last part of this chapter, we will focus a little bit on understanding how Azure Functions integrate with other Azure services. We will take a look at the available triggers and bindings and try to figure out the best use cases for them and how they really work. This section is designed in a way that enables you to explore more by yourself, thanks to a common understanding of how Azure Functions work.

Function file

When you take a look at your bin directory, where compiled functions are available, you will find a bit of a different structure than in traditional applications.

Here, you can find my folder from the exercise from this chapter:

As you can see, it contains the Function1...