Getting Started with Azure Functions

You may know some JavaScript, but you don’t know how you can use it in an Azure Function. What limitations are there?

C# is the most popular language among .NET programmers. How to use C# in Azure Functions?

F# is growing in popularity and is a first-class citizen in Azure Functions. How to use F# in Azure Functions?

Python is a very popular language among scientists and DevOps engineers. How can you use it in Azure Functions?

PHP is massively popular among the Open Source community. You can run your PHP scripts in Azure Functions.

What if you are using something a little less standard? Can you use other languages on Azure Functions?

It is important to grasp the concept of triggering a function from an event and bind your input or output to another Azure service.

We’ve been using triggers in our previous videos without really knowing it. We need to understand the basics of basic triggers and how we can use some basic bindings to interact with our caller.

Have you ever had to write a service to “poll” a directory or queue to see if something happened? Do you have services that must be called by your client until something happens? In this video, we’ll show how you can eliminate that messy logic and replace it with Azure Functions that fire from storage events.

What if you have the need to trigger your Azure Function from a stream of real-time data or from an event from Event Hub? Why would you need this and how would you do it?

Sometimes you just need to do a little more complex job when your function does it’s magic. In this video we’ll cover some of the more advanced bindings.

Maybe, Azure Functions aren’t the ideal approach for your solution. You may be better served using Microsoft Flow, Logic Apps or Azure WebJobs. How do you decide?

We’ve seen the Hosting Plan dropdown. It seems important but you may not know what it means. Should you use a consumption plan or an App Service plan?

No one wants to build something that requires continuous maintenance. What are some tips to follow to prevent problems with our Azure Functions down the road?

In the previous video, we went over someb est practices for your Azure Functions to help with durable, performant apps. This video will now share some best practices for security.

If you’re interested in Azure Functions, you’ve probably heard about serverless architecture. However, you may not be clear on what it means. In this video, I will help you understand what it is.

In the previous video,youlearned what a serverless architecture is. Now let’s discover why it has becomeso popular among software architects recently.

You’re excited about serverless. You may even have ported everything over to Azure Functions in your head! Before you start shutting down your traditional servers, let’s take a sober look at some things that you should consider before you have 400 Azure Functions taking over your life.

In our previous video, we talked about some of the challenges you may have if you rely on a serverless architecture. In this video, I’m going to give you some hope; there are some practices you can follow that will help you maintain your sanity in your serverless home.

In the previous video, we gave you some best practices for a serverless architecture. Now you’re ready to start moving your big monolithic application to lightweight Functions that don’t require you to manage the infrastructure. In this video, I’ll give you some pointers on moving to a serverless architecture.

To ensure that your Azure Functions are running properly, you may want to use integration tests in your projects. How would you use them properly?

Calling a sophisticated REST endpoint is hard to set up with your browser or with an integration test. But there is a free tool that makes it super easy. It’s called Postman. How to use the Postman tool?

How can you tell if your Azure Functions are running properly? This is really important if you’re trying to maintain a reliable infrastructure.

What if you can’t figure out why your Azure Function is failing? Can you debug the code? Can you step through your Azure Function remotely on the server?

Is there a good tool for developers to use for develop Azure Functions locally? Is it free and easy to use?

If you’re editing Azure Functions directly in the web editor in the Azure Portal, you’re probably going to have a big problem. Is it possible to use source control to protect your function’s source code? Can you use Git to automatically deploy changes to your Azure Functions?

When you learn about infrastructure as code in Azure, you should learn about Azure Resource Manager, or ARM for short. It can be a little tricky to understand, but once you start using it, you’ll want to manage all your infrastructure with it.

ARM templates for storage accounts and VMs are pretty straightforward, but they are a little tricky with Function Apps. How can we create a reusable template for our function apps?

We covered some of the techniques you can use to automate deployment in your Azure Function apps. This video will give you a general overview and help give you some tips to use in your organization.