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Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure

By : Daniel Bass
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Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure

By: Daniel Bass

Overview of this book

Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure redefines your experience of designing serverless systems. It shows you how to tackle challenges of varying levels, not just the straightforward ones. You'll be learning how to deliver features quickly by building systems, which retain the scalability and benefits of serverless. You'll begin your journey by learning how to build a simple, completely serverless application. Then, you'll build a highly scalable solution using a queue, load messages onto the queue, and read them asynchronously. To boost your knowledge further, the book also features durable functions and ways to use them to solve errors in a complex system. You'll then learn about security by building a security solution from serverless components. Next, you’ll gain an understanding of observability and ways to leverage application insights to bring you performance benefits. As you approach the concluding chapters, you’ll explore chaos engineering and the benefits of resilience, by actively switching off a few of the functions within a complex system, submitting a request, and observing the resulting behavior. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to build and maintain increasingly complex systems that match evolving platform requirements.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Protecting Client Information with Azure Active Directory B2C


Login systems are a constant source of security flaws and errors. Many login systems have been created over and over again; the proverbial wheel has been constantly reinvented for many years. This is a serious issue as most of these login systems protect important client information. Even something as innocuous as a music service can provide vital data to a criminal looking to perform a spear phishing attack.

The best way to implement a secure login system for any modern application–not just a serverless one–is to use a service such as Azure Active Directory B2C or Amazon Cognito. Services like this will allow you to effortlessly add third-party identity providers such as Facebook and Google. They're also globally distributed and reliable, with excellent service-level agreements (SLAs). They will store and protect vital user information in compliant ways, which means that you don't need to worry about storing personally identifiable...