Azure serverless computing cookbook : solve problems at scale by leveraging Azure functions / Praveen Kumar Sreeram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sreeram, Praveen Kumar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloud computing.

Web services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Sreeram Praveen Kumar: Praveen Kumar Sreeram is an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and certified Azure Solutions Architect. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of development, analysis, design, and the delivery of applications of various technologies. His projects range from custom web development using ASP. NET and MVC to building mobile apps using the cross-platform Xamarin technology for domains such as insurance, telecom, and wireless expense management. He has been given the Most Valuable Professional award twice by one of the leading social community websites, CSharpCorner, for his contributions to the Microsoft Azure community through his articles. Praveen is highly focused on learning about technology, and blogs about his learning regularly. You can also follow him on Twitter at @PrawinSreeram. Currently, his focus is on analyzing business problems and providing technical solutions for various projects related to Microsoft Azure and. NET Core.

Summary:

Over 50 recipes to help you build applications hosted on Serverless architecture using Azure Functions. About This Book Enhance Azure Functions with continuous deployment using Visual Studio Team Services Learn to deploy and manage cost-effective and highly available serverless applications using Azure Functions This recipe-based guide will teach you to build a robust serverless environment Who This Book Is For If you are a Cloud administrator, architect, or developer who wants to build scalable systems and deploy serverless applications with Azure functions, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge and hands-on experience with core services of Microsoft Azure is required. What You Will Learn Develop different event-based handlers supported by serverless architecture supported by Microsoft Cloud Platform ? Azure Integrate Azure Functions with different Azure Services to develop Enterprise-level applications Get to know the best practices in organizing and refactoring the code within the Azure functions Test, troubleshoot, and monitor the Azure functions to deliver high-quality, reliable, and robust cloud-centric applications Automate mundane tasks at various levels right from development to deployment and maintenance Learn how to develop statefulserverless applications and also self-healing jobs using DurableFunctions In Detail Microsoft provides a solution to easily run small segment of code in the Cloud with Azure Functions. Azure Functions provides solutions for processing data, integrating systems, and building simple APIs and microservices. The book starts with intermediate-level recipes on serverless computing along with some use cases on benefits and key features of Azure Functions. Then, we'll deep dive into the core aspects of Azure Functions such as the services it provides, how you can develop and write Azure functions, and how to monitor and troubleshoot them. Moving on, you'll get practical recipes on integrating DevOps with Azure functions, and providing continuous integration and continous deployment with Visual Studio Team Services. It also provides hands-on steps and tutorials based on real-world serverless use cases, to guide you through configuring and setting up your serverless environments with ease. Finally, you'll see how to manage Azure functions, providing enterprise-level security and compliance to your serverless code architecture. By the end of this book, you will have all the skills required to work with serverle...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewer

Acknowledgments

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Accelerate Your Cloud Application Development Using Azure Function Triggers and Bindings

Introduction

Building a backend Web API using HTTP triggers

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

See also

Persisting employee details using Azure Storage table output bindings

How to do it...

How it works...

Understanding more about Storage Connection

What is Azure Table storage service?

Partition key and row key

There's more...

Saving the profile images to Queues using Queue output bindings

There's more…

Storing the image in Azure Blob storage

See also...

Cropping an image using ImageResizer trigger

Chapter 2: Working with Notifications Using SendGrid and Twilio Services

Sending an email notification to the administrator of the website using the SendGrid service

Creating a SendGrid account

Generating the SendGrid API key

Configuring the SendGrid API key with the Azure Function app

Sending an email notification to the end user dynamically

Implementing email logging in the Blob storage

Modifying the email content to include an attachment

Customizing the log file name using IBinder interface

Adding an attachment to the email.

There's more...

Sending SMS notification to the end user using the Twilio service

Chapter 3: Seamless Integration of Azure Functions with Other Azure Services

Using Cognitive Services to locate faces from the images

Creating a new Computer Vision API account

Configuring App settings

Azure SQL Database interactions using Azure Functions

Processing a file stored in OneDrive using an external file trigger

Monitoring tweets using Logic Apps and notifying when popular users tweet

Create a new Logic App

Designing the Logic App with Twitter and Gmail connectors

Testing the Logic App functionality

Integrating Logic Apps with Azure Functions

Chapter 4: Understanding the Integrated Developer Experience of Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions

Creating the function app using Visual Studio 2017

Debugging C# Azure Functions on a local staged environment using Visual Studio 2017

Connecting to the Azure Cloud storage from local Visual Studio environment

Deploying the Azure Function app to Azure Cloud using Visual Studio

Debugging live C# Azure Function hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment using Visual Studio

Getting ready.

How to do it...

Chapter 5: Exploring Testing Tools for the Validation of Azure Functions

Testing Azure Functions

Testing HTTP triggers using Postman

Testing Blob trigger using the Microsoft Storage Explorer

Testing Queue trigger using the Azure Management portal

Testing an Azure Function on a staged environment using deployment slots

There's more

Load testing Azure Functions using VSTS

Creating and testing Azure Function locally using Azure CLI tools

Testing and validating Azure Function responsiveness using Application Insights

Chapter 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Serverless Services

Monitoring your Azure Functions

Monitoring Azure Functions using Application Insights

There's more ...

Pushing custom telemetry details to analytics of Application Insights

Creating AI function

Configuring access keys

Integrating and testing AI query

Configuring the custom derived metric report

Sending application telemetry details via email

Integrating real-time AI monitoring data with Power BI using Azure Functions

Configuring Power BI with dashboard, dataset, and push URI

Creating Azure AI real-time Power BI - C# function

There's more.

Chapter 7: Code Reusability and Refactoring the Code in Azure Functions

Creating a common code repository for better manageability within a function app

Shared code across Azure Functions using class libraries

Azure Functions and precompiled assemblies

Getting ready...

Creating a class library using Visual Studio

Creating a new HTTP trigger Azure Function

Migrating legacy C# application classes to Azure Functions using PowerShell

Creating an application using Visual Studio

Creating a new PowerShell Azure Function

Using strongly typed classes in Azure Functions

Chapter 8: Developing Reliable and Durable Serverless Applications Using Durable Functions

Configuring Durable Functions in the Azure Management portal

Creating a hello world Durable Function app

Creating HttpStart Function - the Orchestrator client

Creating Orchestrator function

Creating Activity function

Testing and troubleshooting Durable Functions

Implementing multithreaded reliable applications using Durable Functions

Creating Activity function GetAllCustomers

Creating Activity function CreateQRCodeImagesPerCustomer

See also.

Chapter 9: Implement Best Practices for Azure Functions

Adding multiple messages to a Queue using the IAsyncCollector function

Implementing defensive applications using Azure Functions and Queue triggers

CreateQueueMessage - C# Console Application

Developing the Azure Function - Queue trigger

Running tests using the Console Application

Handling massive ingress using Event Hub for IoT and similar scenarios

Creating an Azure Function Event Hub trigger&amp

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Developing a Console Application that simulates IoT data&amp

Enabling authorization for function apps

Controlling access to Azure Functions using function keys

Configuring the function key for each application

Configuring one host key for all the functions in a single function app

Chapter 10: Implement Continuous Integration and Deployment of Azure Functions Using Visual Studio Team Services

Prerequisites

Continuous integration - creating a build definition

Continuous integration - queuing the build and trigger&amp

manually

Configuring and triggering the automated build

See also&amp

Creating&amp

a release definition

Trigger the release automatically

How to do it.

How it works.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 31, 2017).

OCLC:

1003645603