Azure Functions (in 20 minutes)

Presented by Chris Gilbert at Brisbane Serverless Meetup.

A (very quick) introduction to Azure Functions. All information out of date a week later.

Transcript

1. Azure Functions …in twenty minutes…
2. Chris Gilbert Principal Consultant at SixPivot Caffeine Consumer @chriswithpants
3. What we’ll cover  How it executes  How it scales  How it’s billed  What you can write it in  What you can write it in  How to debug it  How to deploy it  How to monitor it
4. How does it execute?  Function as a Service / Code as a Service Trigger Code Response Input Output
5. Triggers How can we make the code run?  Manual  HTTP (standard and webhook)  Timer  Events  Azure Event Hub  Azure Storage Queue  Azure Storage Blob  SaaS File  Azure Service Bus
6. Inputs What can we consume?  Azure DocumentDB Document  Azure Mobile Table Record  Azure Storage Blog  Azure Storage Table  SaaS Table  SaaS File
7. Outputs What can we output to?  Azure DocumentDB Document  Azure Event Hub  Azure Mobile Table Record  Azure Notification Hub  Azure Service Bus  Azure Storage Blob  Azure Storage Queue  Azure Storage Table  HTTP  SaaS File  SendGrid  Twilio SMS
8. How does it scale? Magically! This is serverless after all!
9. How is it billed? Execution Time  $0.00001/GB-s  100ms blocks  400,000 GB-s free per month Total Executions  $0.2547/million executions  1 million executions free per month
10. An example maybe?  1,536MB memory size  West US region  1 second execution time  2,000,000 executions per month  $26.75/month
11. What can I write it in?
12. What can I write it in?
13. That sounds terrible. What else can I write it in?
14. Does that mean I can run it locally? YES!
15. Demo Running Azure Functions Locally
16. So, can I debug it? According to Microsoft, yes… …but not on my machine 
17. How can I deploy it?
18. But you can’t have it both ways! Once you’ve configured continuous integration, the portal is read-only
19. How do I monitor it? Built-in Logs Application Insights
20. Questions?