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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 serverless computing


The Azure serverless computing offering is called Azure Functions.

Azure offers a number of other "compute-on-demand" services in which you aren't required to manage servers, such as Azure WebJobs and Azure Batch. These services are not Functions as a Service, and are best suited for background or batch processing. These services will be covered in the Appendix A, Azure Compute On-Demand Options.

Hosting Plan

There are two options for hosting plans for the Azure Functions: the Consumption Plan and the App Service Plan.

With an App Service plan, you host the application on Azure App Service.

In general, App Service is a Platform as a Service offering for hosting web or mobile applications on Azure. If you have a web development background, you can think of App Service as an IIS as a service. When deploying a .Net Web Application (as we will see in Chapter 3, Setting Up the Development Environment, when deploying a results dashboard), you will only need to take care of...

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