Your first Serverless application in Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service from Microsoft and provides services similar to AWS in the areas of software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and Serverless computing. It supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks. In this recipe, we will create a simple Serverless application on Azure. We will also learn about the most appropriate managed Serverless services in Azure for the various use cases discussed in this book.

Getting ready

Following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

• JDK 8 or above.
• Apache Maven 3 or above.
• A working account on Azure.
• Azure CLI.
  You can install Azure CLI by using...