Beginning Azure Functions

Rahul works as a software developer with Microsoft, India and is a Microsoft certified Azure Developer and Architect. He has more than five years of experience in IT where he has worked in various software development roles. He has worked on various projects on ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, Web API, AngularJS, SQL Server, and Azure. His cloud technologies exposure includes working on Azure Functions, Microservices, Azure AD, Azure Blob Storage,ARM Templates, Azure Storage Queues, App Service and Traffic Manager. 

Chapter 1:  Introduction to Azure Functions Chapter Goal: Introduction to book and topics to be covered



No of pages    5-10



Sub -Topics



1.      Overview of serverless architecture



2.      Overview of Azure Function



3.      Azure Function Vs Azure Web Jobs.



4.      Azure App Services & Azure App Functions Pricing

Chapter 2:  Creating Azure Function Chapter Goal: This chapter covers the basic of Azure Function and takes audience through creating their first Azure Function



No of pages: 10 - 20



Sub - Topics  



1.        Creating Azure Function Using Azure Portal



2.       Creating Azure Function Using Visual Studio



3.       Azure Function File Hierarchy, Configuration & Settings

Chapter 3: Understanding Azure Functions Triggers And Bindings Chapter Goal: To understand triggers and bindings in Azure Function



No of pages : 15-20



Sub - Topics: 



1.      Overview of Trigger and Bindings



2.      Creating a Blob Storage Triggered Azure Function



3.   Creating a Azure Function Triggered by Timer

Chapter 4: Serverless API Using Azure Function Chapter Goal: This chapter takes audience through creating Serverless API’s and also, migrating existing application to Azure Function



No of pages: 30-40



Sub - Topics:



1. How Azure Function Can Help You Convert Monolithic Applications to Highly Scalable API's.



2. Creating Http Triggered Azure Function.



3. Overview of Proxies in Azure Function



4. Creating an OpenAPI definition for others to consume API

Chapter 5: Azure Durable Functions for statefulness Chapter Goal: This chapter covers Durable Functions in Azure



No of pages: 40-50



Sub - Topics:



1.      Overview Of Durable Function



2.      Bindings for Durable Function



3.      Managing Instances in Durable Functions



4.      Error Handling in Durable Functions



5.      Performance, Scalability & Versioning in Durable Functions



6.      Disaster Recovery & Geo-Distribution of Durable Functions

Chapter 6: Deploying Azure Function Chapter Goal: This chapter takes you through the deployment process of Azure Function



No of pages: 10-20



Sub - Topics:



1.      Deploying Azure Function Using Continuous Deployment



2.      Deploying Azure Function Using ARM Templates



3.      Testing Azure Function.

Chapter 7: Monitoring Azure Function in Production Chapter Goal: To understand how to monitor Azure Functions in Production



No of pages: 20-30



Sub - Topics:



1. How to Monitor Azure Function?



2. Remote Debugging Azure Function



3. Referencing Nuget Packages



4. Securing Azure Function



5. Configuring CORS for Azure Function