Practical Azure Functions: A Guide to Web, Mobile, and IoT Applications

Start developing Azure Functions and building simple solutions for serverless computing without worrying about infrastructure. With the increased need for deploying serverless computing, Azure Functions integrates with other Azure resources. This book is a quick reference and consists of a practical and problem-driven approach with the latest technology. Guided by step-by-step explanations and sample projects, you'll set up, build, and deploy Azure Functions to get the most out of this compute-on-demand service. After a foundational introduction to Azure Functions you'll prepare a development environment to serve and process an IoT Telemetry system, create Microservices, and monitor Azure Functions services to get application insights.

What You’ll Learn

• Review the Interaction between Azure Functions and Azure data services
• Apply Azure Functions in web applications and build interaction systems for mobile applications
• Develop a serverless micro-service
• Serve and process IoT Telemetry systems
• Monitor Azure Functions services and get application insights

Who This Book Is For

Developers, students, professionals and anyone interested in Azure Function technology and the Azure platform.

About the Author

Agus Kurniawan is a lecturer, IT consultant, and author. He has 15 years of experience in various software and hardware development projects, delivering materials in training and workshops, and technical writing. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award 14 years in a row.

Agus is a lecturer and researcher in the field of networking and security systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in computer science at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. He can be reached on Twitter at @agusk2010.

Wely is a developer, architect, trainer, consultant, technical writer, and technology lover.

With the grant of ASEAN Graduate Scholarship, Wely obtained his Master of Science in Information Systems from Nanyang Technological University. He currently works as Cloud Solution Architect on Azure Application Development Platform for Microsoft Asia Pacific.

In spare time, he writes blog, delivers presentation, and participates in online community. His passion in driving Microsoft technologies especially in Azure made him to be awarded the first Azure MVP in Southeast Asia.