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Daniel Bass is the author of ‘Beginning Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure' and a developer with a major financial services firm that is moving to Azure. He is a key member of the team that is creating the first major greenfield projects purely on Azure in the company, utilizing a combination of serverless functions, web apps and data lake analytics. He has designed solutions from scratch for ingesting complex information from legacy data sources using serverless functions, processing it using data lake analytics and reforming it using serverless functions. He is actively developing serverless solutions in a team that designs it's own releases, so he is completely familiar with both the release tooling and development tooling. Daniel also has several years experience as a tutor of GCSE and A-Level students, producing quality education support for students across a broad spectrum of age and ability. He enjoys teaching and sharing knowledge with others. His own educational background includes a 1 st Class Honours in Physics MSci from University College London.
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Architecting Greenfield Serverless Applications

A greenfield project (or product) is a new solution to a problem; it is not built on top of any existing application but usually is part of a wider business architecture.

Whenever a new greenfield project starts, technologists receive an often incomplete set of very approximate, high-level requirements. They then start to form an architecture to satisfy those requirements, and keep in mind any other requirements that they suspect may appear. Modern development approaches recognize the need for architecture to be as extensible and flexible as possible, because that initial set of requirements is never, ever complete, and today's greenfield projects are tomorrow's legacy systems.


Techniques such as adding an API layer and making the subcomponents modular can be used to make applications flexible and extensible.

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Daniel Bass

Daniel Bass is the author of ‘Beginning Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure' and a developer with a major financial services firm that is moving to Azure. He is a key member of the team that is creating the first major greenfield projects purely on Azure in the company, utilizing a combination of serverless functions, web apps and data lake analytics. He has designed solutions from scratch for ingesting complex information from legacy data sources using serverless functions, processing it using data lake analytics and reforming it using serverless functions. He is actively developing serverless solutions in a team that designs it's own releases, so he is completely familiar with both the release tooling and development tooling. Daniel also has several years experience as a tutor of GCSE and A-Level students, producing quality education support for students across a broad spectrum of age and ability. He enjoys teaching and sharing knowledge with others. His own educational background includes a 1 st Class Honours in Physics MSci from University College London.
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