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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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To Get the Most out of This Book

You should have a basic knowledge of C# and a general knowledge of Azure. Knowledge of ASP.NET/MVC is beneficial but is not mandatory. The minimum hardware requirements are: Intel Core i3 or equivalent, 4GB RAM, 10 GB hard disk, and a stable internet connection. You'll also need the following software installed in advance:

  • Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox (Latest updates installed)
  • Postman app for API Development Environment
  • Visual Studio 2017 with Azure Development Workflow (Latest version)
  • Node.js with Azure-functions-core-tools version 1.x installed via npm
  • .NET Framework 4.6 or higher

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The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/Beginning-Serverless-Architectures-with-Microsoft-Azure. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Conventions Used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The example is called BeginningAzureServerlessArchitecture, so all code snippets will refer to that namespace."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
Amount: 47.32,
ExecutionTime: "2018-01-01T09:00:00Z"
}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

class Transaction
{
public DateTime ExecutionTime { get; set; }
public Decimal Amount { get; set; }
}

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Right-click on your project and select Publish. Select Create New Azure Function App."

Activity: These are scenario-based activities that will let you practically apply what you've learned over the course of a complete section. They are typically in the context of a real-world problem or situation.


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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.
Read more about Daniel Bass