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Introduction To Serverless Compute With Azure Functions: Callon Campbell Systems Architect

Azure Functions allow developers to write serverless applications that run in the cloud. Functions can be triggered by events from other Azure services or third party applications. This serverless approach allows developers to focus on writing code without worrying about managing infrastructure. Common scenarios for Azure Functions include timer-based processing, integrating with Azure services, building serverless web or mobile backends, and real-time stream processing. Functions provide benefits like reduced costs, increased scalability, and faster development times compared to traditional infrastructure models.

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Introduction To Serverless Compute With Azure Functions: Callon Campbell Systems Architect

Azure Functions allow developers to write serverless applications that run in the cloud. Functions can be triggered by events from other Azure services or third party applications. This serverless approach allows developers to focus on writing code without worrying about managing infrastructure. Common scenarios for Azure Functions include timer-based processing, integrating with Azure services, building serverless web or mobile backends, and real-time stream processing. Functions provide benefits like reduced costs, increased scalability, and faster development times compared to traditional infrastructure models.

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Introduction to serverless

compute with Azure Functions

Callon Campbell
Systems Architect
About me
Callon Campbell
Systems Architect / Developer. 19 years of
experience developing desktop, mobile and web
enterprise applications using .NET Framework, SQL
Server and Azure technologies.
Co-creator of ReflectInsight, a.NET logging
framework and a real-time Live Log Viewer.

Email: [email protected] Twitter: @Flying_Maverick


Blog: http://TheFlyingMaverick.com LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/calloncampbell
Website: http://ReflectInsight.com
Microsoft Azure Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/calloncampbell
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Agenda
• Overview of Azure Functions and serverless
• Tooling
• Common scenarios
• Wrap up

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What is Azure Functions?
• Azure Functions are a serverless event driven compute on
demand experience

• Think of Azure Functions as…

• C#, Node.js and Java

• Visual Studio, VS Code and CLI tooling

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Serverless scale
Function
Microservice
Function
Function
Microservice Function
Function

Monolith Microservice Function


Function
Function
Microservice
Function
Function
Microservice Function
Function
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What is serverless?

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Benefits of serverless

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Realizing serverless benefits

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What can I do with Azure Functions?
• Azure Functions are great for processing data,
integrating systems, working with IoT, simple API’s
and microservices
• Azure Functions provide templates for a number of
key scenarios
• Azure Functions supports
• Triggers - a way to start execution
• Bindings - a way to simplify code for input and output of
data
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Integrations
• Azure Functions can be Supported Integrations
triggered by virtually any
event in Azure, other 3rd • CosmosDB
party services or even from • Event Hubs
on-premise systems • Mobile Apps (tables)
• Notification Hubs
• Service Bus (queues, topics)
• These services can trigger
• Storage (blob, queues, tables)
your function (startup) or
• GitHub (webhooks)
serve as input and output
• Twilio (SMS messages)
for your code
• On-premises (using Service Bus)
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Azure Functions runtime versions

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Develop how you want

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Demo 1:
Azure Functions
from Portal
Demo 2:
Azure Functions
from Visual Studio
Common scenarios for Azure Functions

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Timer-based processing
Azure Functions supports an event based on a timer
using CRON job syntax.

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Azure service event processing
Azure Functions supports triggering an event based
on an activity in an Azure service.

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SaaS event processing
Azure Functions supports triggers based on activity in
a SaaS service.

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Serverless web application architectures
Azure Functions can power a single page app.

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Serverless mobile backends
A mobile backend can be just a set of HTTP APIs that
are called from a mobile client using the WebHook
URL.

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Real-time stream processing
Azure Functions can power an IoT Stream Analytics
app.

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Real-time bot messaging
Azure Functions can be used to customize the
behavior of a bot using a WebHook.

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Summary

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Summary
• With Azure Functions, the focus is on the code and not
managing the infrastructure.

• When used as the serverless compute component of a


serverless architecture, you have the following benefits:
• Reduced time to market
• Lower total cost of ownership
• Pay per execution
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Azure serverless compute
• It’s now becoming easier than ever to create small,
targeted microservice architecture using a variety of
services
• Azure provides many services that can help you
achieve a low-friction, high-throughput and low-cost
solution
• Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid are just a
few in the serverless architecture family

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Azure Functions are bricks.
You are the architect!
Thank you!

[email protected]
TheFlyingMaverick.com
@Flying_Maverick

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What’s next?
• Try Azure Functions for free:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/try/app-service/
• Blog:https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appservicete
am/tag/azure-functions/
• Twitter: @AzureFunctions
• Learn more at Microsoft Virtual Academy and
Channel 9
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References
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/functions/
• https://functions.azure.com/
• https://portal.azure.com/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/
• Azure Functions in Practice
• Azure - Serverless Architecture with Azure Functions
• Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions Preview
• Azure Storage Explorer
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