Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook Build and monitor Azure apps hosted on serverless architecture using Azure functions, 3e

Discover recipes for implementing solutions to real-world business problems through serverless applications

Key Features

Test, troubleshoot, and monitor Azure functions to deliver high-quality and reliable cloud-centric applications

Understand Visual Studio's integrated developer experience for Azure functions

Explore best practices for organizing and refactoring code within the Azure functions

Book Description

This third edition of Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook guides you through the development of a basic back-end web API that performs simple operations, helping you understand how to persist data in Azure Storage services. You'll cover the integration of Azure Functions with other cloud services, such as notifications (SendGrid and Twilio), Cognitive Services (computer vision), and Logic Apps, to build simple workflow-based applications.

With the help of this book, you'll be able to leverage Visual Studio tools to develop, build, test, and deploy Azure functions quickly. It also covers a variety of tools and methods for testing the functionality of Azure functions locally in the developer's workstation and in the cloud environment. Once you're familiar with the core features, you'll explore advanced concepts such as durable functions, starting with a "hello world" example, and learn about the scalable bulk upload use case, which uses durable function patterns, function chaining, and fan-out/fan-in.

By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the knowledge and practical experience needed to be able to create and deploy Azure applications on serverless architectures efficiently.

What you will learn

Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (D) of Azure functions

Develop different event-based handlers in a serverless architecture

Integrate Azure functions with different Azure services to develop enterprise-level applications

Accelerate your cloud application development using Azure function triggers and bindings

Automate mundane tasks at various levels, from development to deployment and maintenance

Develop stateful serverless applications and self-healing jobs using durable functions

Who this book is for

If you are a cloud developer or architect who wants to build cloud-native systems and deploy serverless applications with Azure functions, this book is for you. Prior experience with Microsoft Azure core services will help you to make the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

Accelerating cloud app development using Azure Functions

Working with notifications using the SendGrid and Twilio services

Seamless integration of Azure Functions with Azure Services

Developing Azure functions using Visual Studio

Exploring testing tools for Azure functions

Troubleshooting and monitoring Azure Functions

Developing reliable serverless applications using durable functions

Bulk import of data using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB

Configuring security for Azure Functions

Implementing best practices for Azure Functions

Configuring serverless applications in the production environment