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Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288393
Pages 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Understanding Serverless Architecture 2. Getting Started with the Azure Environment 3. Setting Up the Development Environment 4. Configuring Endpoints, Triggers, Bindings, and Scheduling 5. Integrations and Dependencies 6. Integrating Azure Functions with Cognitive Services API 7. Debugging Your Azure Functions 8. Testing Your Azure Functions 9. Configuring Continuous Delivery 10. Securing Your Application 11. Monitoring Your Application 12. Designing for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and Scale 13. Designing Cost-Effective Services 14. C# Script-Based Functions 15. Azure Compute On-Demand Options

Azure PaaS Cloud Services


Azure PaaS Cloud Services are a part of the older Azure Service Manager API. Cloud services were the first Azure PaaS Service released by Microsoft.

PaaS Cloud Services consist of Web Roles, which are designed to host Web applications in IIS, and Worker Roles, which are designed for running the backend processing jobs.

Like with any PaaS offering, you do not need to manage the infrastructure or ensure high availability. You can configure the instance size and the number of instances you need deployed, and the platform will handle the provisioning.

Unlike the App Service, PaaS Cloud Services offer you limited admin access to the VMs and allow you to install custom software by running startup scripts. The underlying infrastructure, however, isn' t persistent, and a particular role instance could be re-provisioned at any time. This means that installing additional software on the underlying VMs manually will not be persisted, and also that running very long startup scripts...

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