Learning Azure Functions

Key Features

Learn to develop, manage, deploy, and monitor Azure functions in any language.
Make the most out of Azure functions to build scalable systems.
A step-by-step guide that will help you eliminate the pain points of implementing a serverless architecture.

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Understand the folder structure of a function and the purposes of the files
Deploy the function and test it
Explore the common triggers that are used to activate a function
Discover how bindings can be used to output results of a function
Build a dll that has functionality that can be leveraged by a function
Chain functions to allow invocation of one function from another
Understand the steps to monitor the health of your functions

About the Author

Mitesh Soni is an avid learner with 10 years' experience in the IT industry. He is an SCJP, SCWCD, VCP, IBM Urbancode, and IBM Bluemix certified professional. He loves DevOps and Cloud Computing and he also has an interest in programming in Java. He finds design patterns fascinating. He believes "a picture is worth a thousand words."

He occasionally contributes to etutorialsworld website. He loves to play with kids, fiddle with his camera, and take photographs at Indroda Park. He is addicted to taking pictures without knowing many technical details. He lives in the capital of Mahatma Gandhi's home state.

Mitesh has authored several books- DevOps Bootcamp,Implementing DevOps with Microsoft Azure,DevOps for Web Development,Jenkins Essentials and Learning Chef for Packt publishing.

Manisha Yadav is a System engineer. She has worked on several Java based projects, web application projects and on Cloud services of Azure and AWS. She has experience of working with tools like Jenkins and SonarQube. She also has worked on database like MYSQL, MongoDB and front-end technology like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS.

She loves to explore new cloud services and new technologies. She is fond of travelling, and spending time with family. She also likes cooking.