Beginning Azure Functions: Building Scalable and Serverless Apps, 2nd Edition

Start creating highly scalable apps and monitoring your Azure functions in production using Azure Functions 4.0. This book thoroughly explains durable functions for statefulness, covering the basics all the way through how to create bindings in durable functions. It’s a deep dive into the Azure Functions serverless API and will guide you through the process of converting monolithic applications to use Azure Functions.

This updated edition is revised to cover changes to Azure Portal and delves into Azure Functions runtime versions, the Isolated Process model, and offers a comparison of Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps. You’ll also learn how to register binding extensions and gain an introduction to Azure Functions binding expression patterns, along with best practices for using Azure Functions. Beginning Azure Functions will provide you with the foundational knowledge to work with Azure Functions and teach you practical skills, such as how to create Azure Functions using different triggers and bindings. You’ll also see how to monitor your Azure Functions in production with live monitoring, and how to perform remote debugging and how to secure your functions.

Upon completing this book, you’ll understand Azure Functions and how to create them using the Azure portal and Visual Studio.

What You Will Learn

• Use triggers and bindings in an Azure function
• Create a serverless API using Azure Functions
• Understand durable Azure functions, including scalability, disaster recovery, and geo-distribution
• Deploy Azure Function and monitor it in production

Who This Book Is For

Developers who want to get started with Azure Functions, as well as DevOps developers, who are looking for guidance in how to deploy and monitor functions.

About the Author

Rahul Sawhney works as a software developer with Microsoft, India, and has more than five years of experience delivering cloud solutions using technologies such as .NET Core, Azure Functions, microservices, AngularJS, Web API, Azure AD, Azure Storage, ARM templates, App Service, Traffic Manager, and more. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Developer and Architect. He loves learning new technologies and is passionate about Microsoft technologies. In his free time, he loves playing table tennis, watching movies, and reading books.

Kalyan Chanumolu is a Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft. He works on building the engineering systems that power the world's computer - Azure. He is a technical reviewer for books on ASP.Net Blazor, Microservices etc. and is extremely passionate about distributed systems and cloud computing. He has vast experience in software development, consulting, and migrating large customer workloads to the cloud. He loves cycling, swimming and reading books.