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Hands-On Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Computing Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836654
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kuldeep Chowhan Kuldeep Chowhan
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Preface 1. What is Serverless Computing? 2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda 4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda 5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS 6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS 7. Getting Started with Azure Functions 8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions 9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure 10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions 11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions 12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud 13. Reference Architecture for a Web App 14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

HTTP and webhook bindings

Azure Functions support HTTP and WebHook bindings for both Triggers and Output Bindings. HTTP triggered Azure Functions doesn't support Input Bindings.

You can customize an HTTP trigger to respond to WebHooks. The Azure Functions webhook trigger will only accept a JSON payload and will only validate JSON. Azure Functions also support special versions of WebHook triggers, which make it easier to consume webhooks from providers such as Slack and GitHub.

HTTP trigger

Let's look at a sample function.json binding file for the HTTP trigger for Azure Functions. In the following bindings, you can see that the type is set to httpTrigger, which means that the trigger is HTTP, and the output binding...

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