Introduction to Azure Functions Richie Rump, Dataveloper 

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Agenda • What is Serverless? • What are Azure Functions? • What can you do with Azure Functions? • WHAT’S THE COST BRO? 

What is Serverless? A cloud computing execution model where the cloud provider fully manages (virtual) servers behind the scenes. 

What is Serverless? • No servers to configure • No VMs to spin up • Reduced cost • Slave to the service 

What is Serverless? Browser Storage API/ Function Database 

Serverless in Amazon Web Services • Storage: S3 • Function: Lambda • API: API Gateway • Database: • Aurora (Relational) • DynamoDB (NoSQL) 

Serverless in Microsoft Azure • Storage: Blob Storage • Function: Azure Functions • API: Azure Functions • Database: • SQL Database (Relational) • DocumentDB (NoSQL) 

Azure Functions • Simple way to run code in the cloud. • No need for infrastructure. • No need for an application. 

Azure Functions - Languages • C# • Node.js • F# • Python • PHP • Bash • Batch • PowerShell 

Azure Functions - Triggers • Blob • Webhook (GitHub!) • HTTP • Queue • Timer • Service Bus • Event Hub 

Azure Functions - Integrations • DocumentDB • Storage (blob, queues, topics) • Event Hubs • Mobile Apps (tables) • Notification Hubs • Service Bus (queues, topics) • GitHub • On-premises (using Service Bus) 

What can you do? DEMO 

What can you do? DEMO 

Try it yourself! https://functions.azure.com 

What does this all cost? Charged by • Execution Time • Number of Executions You get the first 400,000 GB-s and 1,000,000 executions free! 

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