Introduction to Serverless technologies and Azure functions.

1. Going Serverless
with Azure Functions
Sam Fernando (Senior Microsoft Solutions Architect) – ASG Group

2. SAM FERNANDO
 Senior Solutions Architect @ ASG Group
 President of Adelaide Dynamics UG
 Technology Specialist
 Photography & Music
 Sam.Fernando@smsmt.com
 linkedin.com/in/samfernandoau
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3. Agenda
 Benefits of serverless
 About Azure Functions
 Demo
 Scenarios/Use cases
 Dev tools
 Compute options
 Deployments
 Other serverless technologies

4. Evolution of hosting platforms
PaaSIaaSOn Premise Serverless

5. Benefits of Serverless
Abstraction of
Servers
Focus on
Business Logic
Event Driven/
Instant Scale
Sub-second
billing
Faster ROI

6. Azure Functions
 Make cloud apps easily
 Move existing apps into Microservice architecture
 Develop in C#, Node.js, F#, Python, PHP & etc
 Schedule tasks
 Expose as HTTP APIs
 Respond to external events
 Scale based on demand
 Easily integrate with Logic Apps

7. Azure Function Basics
Input Bindings Output Bindings

8. Scenarios / Use Cases
Timer-based processing

9. Azure service event processing

10. SaaS App event processing

11. Serverless web apps

12. Serverless mobile app backend

13. Real-time stream processing

14. Dev tools
 Azure SDK
 Functions Runtime
 Function sandbox - http://aka.ms/tryfunctions
 VS 2017 tooling and project templates
 Local debugging
 Monitoring
 Log Stream
 Application Insights

15. Deployments
 Direct editing
 Source control support (CI/CD)
 Publish profiles and deployment credentials
 Publish from VS
 Uses Kudu for deployments

16. Other serverless technologies
Redis Machine Learning IoT Hub
Web Jobs Logic Apps DocumentDB
Cosmo DB
Scheduler Event Hub
Event Grid
Functions

17. Compute options
Consumption
• “Serverless”
resourcing
• Pay per invocation
• Auto scaling
App Service
• Dedicated resources
• Larger RAM/CPU
options
• Network isolation
• Manual or auto scaling
• Fixed price

18. Questions?

19. Thank you!
 https://youtube.com/AzureFunctions
 https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions
 Sam.Fernando@smsmt.com
 linkedin.com/in/samfernandoau
 www.slideshare.net/shamiraf