Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook : Build and Monitor Azure Applications Hosted on Serverless Architecture Using Azure Functions, 2nd Edition.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Developing Cloud Applications Using 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 -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Understanding storage connection -- What is the Azure Table storage service? -- Partition key and row key -- There's more... -- Saving the profile images to Queues using Queue output bindings -- Getting ready -- How to do it… -- How it works… -- Storing the image in Azure Blob Storage -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 2: Working with Notifications Using the SendGrid and Twilio Services -- Introduction -- Sending an email notification to the administrator of a website using the SendGrid service -- Getting ready -- Creating a SendGrid account -- Generating an API key from the SendGrid portal -- Configuring the SendGrid API key with the Azure Function app -- How to do it... -- Create Storage Queue binding to the HTTP Trigger -- Creating Queue Trigger to process the message of the HTTP Trigger -- Creating SendGrid output binding to the Queue Trigger -- How it works... -- There's more -- Sending an email notification dynamically to the end user -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Accepting the new email parameter in the RegisterUser function -- Retrieving the UserProfile information in the SendNotifications trigger -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Implementing email logging in Azure Blob Storage -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Modifying the email content to include an attachment -- Getting ready -- How to do it.

Customizing the log file name using IBinder interface -- Adding an attachment to the email -- Sending an SMS notification to the end user using the Twilio service -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Chapter 3: Seamless Integration of Azure Functions with Azure Services -- Introduction -- Using Cognitive Services to locate faces in images -- Getting ready -- Creating a new Computer Vision API account -- Configuring application settings -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Azure SQL Database interactions using Azure Functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Monitoring tweets using Logic Apps and notifying users when a popular user tweets -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating a new Logic App -- Designing the Logic App with Twitter and Gmail connectors -- Testing the Logic App functionality -- How it works... -- Integrating Logic Apps with serverless functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- See also -- Auditing Cosmos DB data using change feed triggers -- Getting ready -- Creating a new Cosmos DB account -- Creating a new Cosmos DB collection -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 4: Understanding the Integrated Developer Experience of Visual Studio Tools -- Introduction -- Creating a function app using Visual Studio 2017 -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Debugging C# Azure Functions on a local staged environment using Visual Studio 2017 -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Connecting to the Azure Storage cloud from the local Visual Studio environment -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Deploying the Azure Function app to Azure Cloud using Visual Studio -- How to do it... -- There's more.

Debugging a live C# Azure Function, hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment, using Visual Studio -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Deploying Azure Functions in a container -- Getting ready -- Creating an ACR -- How to do it... -- Creating a Docker image for the function app -- Pushing the Docker image to the ACR -- Creating a new function app with Docker -- How it works... -- Chapter 5: Exploring Testing Tools for the Validation of Azure Functions -- Introduction -- Testing Azure Functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Testing HTTP triggers using Postman -- Testing a Blob trigger using Microsoft Storage Explorer -- Testing the Queue trigger using the Azure Management portal -- There's more... -- Testing an Azure Function on a staged environment using deployment slots -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Load testing Azure Functions using Azure DevOps -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- See also -- Creating and testing Azure Functions locally using the Azure CLI tools -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Testing and validating Azure Function responsiveness using Application Insights -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Developing unit tests for Azure Functions with HTTP triggers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Chapter 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Serverless Services -- Introduction -- Troubleshooting your Azure Functions -- How to do it... -- Viewing real-time application logs -- Diagnosing the entire function app -- There's more... -- Integrating Azure Functions with Application Insights -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Monitoring your Azure Functions -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Pushing custom telemetry details to Application Insights Analytics -- Getting ready -- How to do it.

Creating an Application Insights function -- Configuring access keys -- Integrating and testing an Application Insights query -- Configuring the custom derived metric report -- How it works... -- Sending application telemetry details via email -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Integrating real-time Application Insights monitoring data with Power BI using Azure Functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Configuring Power BI with a dashboard, a dataset, and the push URI -- Creating an Azure Application Insights real-time Power BI - C# function -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 7: Developing Reliable Serverless Applications Using Durable Functions -- Introduction -- Configuring Durable Functions in the Azure Management portal -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Creating a Durable Function hello world app -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating an HttpStart function in the Orchestrator client -- Creating the Orchestrator function -- Creating an activity function -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Testing and troubleshooting Durable Functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Implementing multithreaded reliable applications using Durable Functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating the Orchestrator function -- Creating a GetAllCustomers activity function -- Creating a CreateBARCodeImagesPerCustomer activity function -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Chapter 8: Bulk Import of Data Using Azure Durable Functions and Cosmos DB -- Introduction -- Business problem -- Durable serverless way of implementing an Excel import -- Uploading employee data into Blob Storage -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Creating a Blob trigger -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more.

Creating the Durable Orchestrator and triggering it for each Excel import -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Reading Excel data using activity functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Reading data from Blob Storage -- Reading Excel data from the stream -- Creating the activity function -- There's more... -- Auto-scaling Cosmos DB throughput -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Bulk inserting data into Cosmos DB -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- Chapter 9: Implementing Best Practices for Azure Functions -- Adding multiple messages to a queue using the IAsyncCollector function -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Implementing defensive applications using Azure Functions and queue triggers -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- CreateQueueMessage - C# console application -- Developing the Azure Function - queue trigger -- Running tests using the console application -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Handling massive ingress using Event Hubs for IoT and other similar scenarios -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating an Azure Function event hub trigger -- Developing a console application that simulates IoT data -- Avoiding cold starts by warming the app at regular intervals -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- Creating an HTTP trigger -- Creating a timer trigger -- There's more... -- See also -- Enabling authorization for function apps -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Controlling access to Azure Functions using function keys -- How to do it... -- Configuring the function key for each application -- Configuring one host key for all the functions in a single function app -- There's more... -- Securing Azure Functions using Azure Active Directory -- Getting ready -- How to do it.

Configuring Azure AD to the function app.

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. This recipe-based guide will help you gain all the skills required to work with serverless code architecture and providing.

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