Advanced Serverless Architectures with Microsoft Azure

Chapter 2

Microservices and Serverless Scaling Patterns

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the unique scaling challenges presented by serverless architectures
• Create a serverless queue for feeding your product's database
• Design a caching strategy to fit any requirements with a serverless architecture
• Use asynchronous processing rather than synchronous processing

This chapter explains how to build a highly scalable solution using a queue, load messages onto the queue, and read them asynchronously.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you created all of the core individual components of a complete serverless architecture. The important thing to note is the total separation of frontend and backend ...