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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding serverless computing

Before we talk about Azure Functions, let's discuss so-called serverless computing, which is kind of a misnomer since your code will definitely run on servers. Anyway, serverless computing isn't completely wrong, either, since it allows you to run code without worrying about servers and infrastructure at all (or the dreaded system administrators, for that matter). Serverless computing allows you to run code without doing any server management. As we've already mentioned, your code will still run on servers, but the server management is done by your cloud vendor (Azure, in our case) and is completely hidden from developers. While Azure Functions is one implementation of serverless, it's not the only one. ...

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