You're reading from Azure for Architects Create secure, scalable, high-availability applications on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215865

Length 698 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

ActionScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jack Lee

Ritesh Modi

Rithin Skaria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About Azure for Architects, Third Edition

1. Getting started with Azure

2. Azure solution availability, scalability, and monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Design pattern – Networks, storage, messaging, and events

4. Automating architecture on Azure

5. Designing policies, locks, and tags for Azure deployments

6. Cost management for Azure solutions

7. Azure OLTP solutions

8. Architecting secure applications on Azure

9. Azure Big Data solutions

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

11. Azure solutions using Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Functions

12. Azure Big Data eventing solutions

13. Integrating Azure DevOps

14. Architecting Azure Kubernetes solutions

15. Cross-subscription deployments using ARM templates

16. ARM template modular design and implementation

17. Designing IoT solutions

18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Index

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

In the previous chapter, you learned about various big data solutions available on Azure. In this chapter, you will learn how serverless technology can help you deal with a large amount of data.

Serverless is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology these days, and everyone wants to ride this bandwagon. Serverless brings a lot of advantages in overall computing, software development processes, infrastructure, and technical implementation. There is a lot going on in the industry: at one end of the spectrum is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and at the other is serverless. In between the two are Platform as a Service (PaaS) and containers. I have met many developers and it seems to me that there is some confusion among them about IaaS, PaaS, containers, and serverless computing. Also, there is much confusion about use cases, applicability, architecture, and implementation for the serverless paradigm. Serverless...