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Going serverless with Azure
@thewindev

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Bogdan Bujdea
.NET Developer @ ISSCO
https://github.com/thewindev
twitter.com/@thewindev
http://thewindev.net

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Agenda
1. What is “serverless” computing
2. Azure FaaS
3. Demo – Automatic scaling
4. Demo – Crypto trading with
Azure Functions
5. What’s next?

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What is serverless?

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Pros

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Focus on writing code

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Automatic scaling

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Great for prototyping

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CHEAP
400.000 GB/s
1.000.000 invocations

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Cons

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Less control

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Outage

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Immature tooling

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Cold starts

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Conclusion

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3. Serverless in Azure

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Azure Function Apps

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Demo

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http://bit.ly/bogdan110

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Azure Container Instances

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TradingView – BTC-USD

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ConvertAPI

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~120 $/month

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puppeteer

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to the rescue

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Functions run inside a sandbox

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Azure Container Instances

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How it works?

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Azure Functions

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+ = 2.16 $/month

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Demo
Crypto trading with Azure
Functions

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5. What’s next?

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Cloudflare Workers

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V8 Isolates
Lightweight contexts that group
variables with the code allowed
to mutate them

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50ms of CPU time/1 million
requests
$0.5 on Cloudflare
~1$ on Azure
$1.84 on AWS
Pricing

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Feedback/resources
http://bit.ly/codecamp-serverless