Beginning Azure Functions: Building Scalable and Serverless Apps

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R. Sawhney, K. ChanumoluBeginning Azure Functions https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9203-7_1

1. Introduction to Azure Functions

Rahul Sawhney¹   and Kalyan Chanumolu¹

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Hyderabad, India

 

The software industry is now in an era where apps and services increasingly rely on the cloud. Applications are globally available and need to scale at a moment’s notice. Deployments need to be seamless without any perceivable downtime to the end customer. Periodic maintenance windows for making infrastructure upgrades are a thing of the past.

To help developers be more productive and focus on developing software rather than worrying about provisioning and maintaining servers, ...