November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
362 pages
7h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Azure Serverless Computing
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Developing and Running Azure Functions
Azure Functions is one of the serverless technologies offered by Azure. It allows you to run code on-demand in response to a variety of events.
In this chapter, we will provide a brief explanation of what Azure Functions is and how it works. We will also introduce all the tools you can use to create, develop, and test a solution based on Azure Functions. The first tool we will look at is Azure Functions Core Tools, which is the most important tool you can use when you start to develop your Azure Functions solution because with it you can create, test, and deploy your Azure Functions. In this chapter, you will also learn how Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code can help you to improve your developer experience ...