Azure Functions Fundamentals
Discover how Azure Functions allows you to easily write serverless code in your language of preference to handle events at scale, with minimal overhead and cost.
What you'll learn
Azure Functions enables you to write serverless code to handle events at scale, with minimal overhead and cost.
In this course, Azure Functions Fundamentals, you'll learn what Azure Functions is intended for, why you might want to use it, and you're going to see loads of demos of how simple it is to create your own functions.
In this intermediate level Azure Functions course you will learn:
- How to work with both C# and JavaScript functions.
- Next, you'll use many different triggers and binding types supported by Azure functions including monitoring queues.
- Then, you'll explore how to work with blob storage, sending emails, and how to develop in Visual Studio or from the command line with a text editor, if you prefer.
- Finally, you'll discover how to automate deployments, as well as how to debug and monitor our functions.
By the end of this course, you'll be ready to create, deploy, and manage your own Azure Functions applications!
Table of contents
- Version Check 0m
- Course Introduction 2m
- Introducing Azure Functions 2m
- Running Code in Azure 4m
- What's Different About Azure Functions? 2m
- Azure Functions Pricing 4m
- Benefits of Azure Functions 2m
- Introducing Serverless Architecture 2m
- Serverless - A Real-world Example 4m
- What Are Azure Functions Good For? 3m
- Module Summary 2m
- Module Introduction 2m
- Demo: Queue Trigger, Blob Output 8m
- Queue Trigger, Blob Output Recap 2m
- Demo: Blob Trigger, SendGrid Output 8m
- Blob Trigger, SendGrid Output Recap 3m
- Demo: Table Storage Output 6m
- Table Storage Output Recap 1m
- Demo: IBinder and Table Storage Input 9m
- IBinder and Table Storage Input Recap 3m
- Module Summary 2m
- Module Introduction 2m
- Ways to Deploy Azure Functions 5m
- Demo: Creating an Azure Function App with the Azure CLI 7m
- Demo: Create an Azure Functions App with ARM 9m
- Demo: Deploying from Visual Studio 4m
- Demo: Publishing from the Command Line 9m
- Demo: Deploying as a Docker Container 5m
- Module Summary 2m
- Module Introduction 2m
- How Can I Monitor My Functions? 1m
- Demo: Monitoring Functions 4m
- Demo: Monitoring Cost 4m
- How Can I Secure My Functions? 4m
- Demo: Working with Function Keys 4m
- How Do I Configure CORS? 1m
- What Other Services Can I Integrate With? 4m
- Demo: Azure Functions Proxies 4m
- Demo: Accessing Secrets in Key Vault 4m
- Demo: Integrate with API Management 4m
- How Can I Build Reliable Workflows with Azure Functions? 2m
- Demo: Durable Functions 5m
- How Can I Learn More? 3m
Course FAQ
Azure Functions is a service that lets you launch serverless applications and run event-triggered code on Microsoft Azure without the need to explicity manage infrastructure.
Some of the benefits of Azure Functions include:
- More productive app development process
- It helps in processing data
- It coordinates with different systems for IoT
- It helps in building simple APIs and microservices
- It helps handle events at scale with minimal cost
You will learn how to write serverless code through Azure Functions. Some topics covered include:
- Introduction to Azure Functions
- Serverless architecture
- Azure Functions pricing
- Creating your first Azure function
- Understanding triggers and bindings
- Building a function pipeline
- Deploying Azure Functions
- Working with Function keys
- Much more
This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn Azure Functions fundamentals. If you want to write serverless code and handle events at scale then this is the course for you!
This is an intermediate level course, so it assumes some experience with Microsoft Azure as well as a working knowledge of a programming language such as C# or JavaScript.
About the author
Mark Heath is a software developer based in Southampton, England, working for NICE Systems as a software architect creating cloud based digital evidence management systems for the police. He is the creator of NAudio, an open source audio framework for .NET. He is passionate about continually improving his skills and training other developers, and in recent years has been particularly focused on the challenges of creating scalable and reliable Azure-deployed systems. In his (very limited) spare t... more
