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Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions

In this chapter, you will be introduced to functions implemented using Azure Functions, which can be configured to only require server-side resources while they execute. The functions execute when they are triggered by an activity like a message sent to a queue, a file uploaded to Azure Storage, or at a regularly scheduled interval.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding Azure Functions
  • Building an Azure Functions project
  • Responding to timer and resource triggers
  • Publishing an Azure Functions project to the cloud
  • Cleaning up Azure Functions resources

Understanding Azure Functions

Azure Functions is an event-driven serverless compute platform. You can build and debug ...

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