This document provides an overview of serverless computing using Azure Functions. It begins with an introduction to serverless computing and what it means for servers to be fully abstracted and for scaling to be event-driven. It then discusses the value of serverless computing in terms of availability, speed, and paying only for what you use. The remainder of the document discusses Logic Apps as a serverless integration technology, provides a list of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications that can be connected in Logic Apps, and concludes with an announcement about a new pricing model for Logic Apps.
Azure Functions enable the creation of event-driven, compute-on-demand systems that can be triggered by various external events. In this session, you will learn
1. How to leverage functions to execute server-side logic
2. Build serverless architectures
3. Key-vault integration
4. Leveraging durable features
5. Hosting web sites
6. Applying dependency injections
7. Monitoring functions
8. Script-based deployment
This slide deck provides the basics of Azure App Service. This presentation was presented by Harikharan Krishnaraju, Developer Support Escalation Engineer, Microsoft during the TechMeet360 event organized by BizTalk360, held on December 17, 2016 at Coimbatore.
Presentation delivered by Dan Toomey at the 2017 Global Integration Bootcamp in Brisbane. Some slides are courtesy of the Pro Integration product team at Microsoft, and also a number of slides borrowed from Paco de la Cruz (Mexia).
There are options beyond a straight forward lift and shift into Azure IaaS. What are your options? Learn how Azure helps modernize applications faster with containers and how you can use serverless to add additional functionality while keeping your production codebase 'clean'. We'll also learn how to incorporate DevOps throughout your apps lifecycle and take advantage of data-driven intelligence. Demo intensive session integrating the likes of Service Fabric, AKS VSTS and more.
Do you want to run your code without the cost and effort of provisioning and managing servers? Find out how in this deep dive session on AWS Lambda, which allows you to run code for virtually any type of application or back end service – all with zero administration. During the session, we’ll look at a number of key AWS Lambda features and benefits, including automated application scaling with high availability; pay-as-you-consume billing; and the ability to automatically trigger your code from other AWS services or from any web or mobile app.
Azure Functions enable the creation of event-driven, compute-on-demand systems that can be triggered by various external events. In this session, you will learn
1. How to leverage functions to execute server-side logic
2. Build serverless architectures
3. Key-vault integration
4. Leveraging durable features
5. Hosting web sites
6. Applying dependency injections
7. Monitoring functions
8. Script-based deployment
This slide deck provides the basics of Azure App Service. This presentation was presented by Harikharan Krishnaraju, Developer Support Escalation Engineer, Microsoft during the TechMeet360 event organized by BizTalk360, held on December 17, 2016 at Coimbatore.
Presentation delivered by Dan Toomey at the 2017 Global Integration Bootcamp in Brisbane. Some slides are courtesy of the Pro Integration product team at Microsoft, and also a number of slides borrowed from Paco de la Cruz (Mexia).
There are options beyond a straight forward lift and shift into Azure IaaS. What are your options? Learn how Azure helps modernize applications faster with containers and how you can use serverless to add additional functionality while keeping your production codebase 'clean'. We'll also learn how to incorporate DevOps throughout your apps lifecycle and take advantage of data-driven intelligence. Demo intensive session integrating the likes of Service Fabric, AKS VSTS and more.
Do you want to run your code without the cost and effort of provisioning and managing servers? Find out how in this deep dive session on AWS Lambda, which allows you to run code for virtually any type of application or back end service – all with zero administration. During the session, we’ll look at a number of key AWS Lambda features and benefits, including automated application scaling with high availability; pay-as-you-consume billing; and the ability to automatically trigger your code from other AWS services or from any web or mobile app.
Presentation from the developer track at I Love APIs London 2016 featuring Matt McClean, Amazon Web Services.
Developers have been jumping on the microservices bandwagon because of the obvious benefits of faster release cycles and innovation. However, microservices' downside is the increased server costs, operational costs, and performance costs. To reduce this complexity, Amazon Web Services created AWS Lambda - a compute platform that lets you build microservices with no provisioning and servers.
Matt McClean, Solution Architect from AWS, presents how to use AWS Lambda to build your microservices. He covers various architectural patterns and anti-patterns for using AWS Lambda.
Developing scalable enterprise serverless applications on azure with .netCallon Campbell
Over the years we have seen an accelerated shift to adopting serverless and cloud-native application architectures. Benefits to these architectures include decreased infrastructure costs and improved time to market, however, it's still important to consider high availability and resiliency in your application design. In this session, Callon will talk about developing scalable enterprise serverless applications on Azure with .NET and use a real-world example of a solution he developed and running in production.
This presentation is from the TechMeet360 event held on August 6, 2016 at BizTalk360 office premises in Coimbatore. In this slide, BizTalk360's Technical Lead Senthil Kumar Palanisamy gives a brief introduction to Microsoft Azure Logic Apps and explains how to Automate Business Process across SaaS and On-Premises.
This slide deck provides the basics of how to build an Azure Logic App. This presentation was presented by Kuppurasu Nagaraj, a Microsoft MVP during the TechMeet360 event organized by BizTalk360, held on December 17, 2016 at Coimbatore.
AWS' philosophy and recommended best practices for building microservices applications, how AWS services like Lambda and API gateway benefit developers building microservices apps, and how customers are using these two and other AWS services to deliver their microservices apps
Creating Event Driven Applications with Azure Event GridCallon Campbell
Azure Event Grid is an event service built for modern applications. Learn about what is Azure Event Grid and how you can use it for an event driven architecture in the cloud.
This presentation will give information about What is Serverless? What service is exposed by AWS to support Function as a Service. Lambda is AWS service which support serverless.
This presentation covers Azure App Services in general and Web Apps specifically. Another technologies described are WebJobs, Visual Studio Online, Mobile Apps etc.
In this presentation we will discuss the evolution of IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, FaaS and how serverless computing is beneficial and what are the challenges we have faced so far
Hybrid integration and the power of Azure services (Jon Fancey at CONNECT17)Codit
This high-powered and interactive presentation shows what can be done with hybrid integration and the power of Azure services. The topics covered include Microsoft BizTalk on-premises, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, and API Management. Jon’s experience as a Microsoft integration partner, and now at Microsoft HQ, enables him to deliver both great demos and interesting real-life stories from the field.
Integration has traditionally been all about ESB’s, EAI and B2B and the exchange of messages between on-premises systems. Today, many companies wish to integrate beyond their firewall, typically with SaaS based application. This change is reflected in the up rise of API based integration using lightweight protocols. In this session Glenn will talk about the evolution of Enterprise Integration and give you an overview on the current state of the Azure Integration Platform. Dive into its architecture and learn all about Logic Apps and the Enterprise Integration Pack. Learn to create basic IFTT (If This Then That) scenarios, or think big and create enterprise-level, hybrid integration scenarios (using Logic Apps and on premises LOB apps). 'How does it work', 'How is it Made' and 'How does it all fit together’ are just a couple of questions that will be answered during this session.
Presentation from the developer track at I Love APIs London 2016 featuring Matt McClean, Amazon Web Services.
Developers have been jumping on the microservices bandwagon because of the obvious benefits of faster release cycles and innovation. However, microservices' downside is the increased server costs, operational costs, and performance costs. To reduce this complexity, Amazon Web Services created AWS Lambda - a compute platform that lets you build microservices with no provisioning and servers.
Matt McClean, Solution Architect from AWS, presents how to use AWS Lambda to build your microservices. He covers various architectural patterns and anti-patterns for using AWS Lambda.
Developing scalable enterprise serverless applications on azure with .netCallon Campbell
Over the years we have seen an accelerated shift to adopting serverless and cloud-native application architectures. Benefits to these architectures include decreased infrastructure costs and improved time to market, however, it's still important to consider high availability and resiliency in your application design. In this session, Callon will talk about developing scalable enterprise serverless applications on Azure with .NET and use a real-world example of a solution he developed and running in production.
This presentation is from the TechMeet360 event held on August 6, 2016 at BizTalk360 office premises in Coimbatore. In this slide, BizTalk360's Technical Lead Senthil Kumar Palanisamy gives a brief introduction to Microsoft Azure Logic Apps and explains how to Automate Business Process across SaaS and On-Premises.
This slide deck provides the basics of how to build an Azure Logic App. This presentation was presented by Kuppurasu Nagaraj, a Microsoft MVP during the TechMeet360 event organized by BizTalk360, held on December 17, 2016 at Coimbatore.
AWS' philosophy and recommended best practices for building microservices applications, how AWS services like Lambda and API gateway benefit developers building microservices apps, and how customers are using these two and other AWS services to deliver their microservices apps
Creating Event Driven Applications with Azure Event GridCallon Campbell
Azure Event Grid is an event service built for modern applications. Learn about what is Azure Event Grid and how you can use it for an event driven architecture in the cloud.
This presentation will give information about What is Serverless? What service is exposed by AWS to support Function as a Service. Lambda is AWS service which support serverless.
This presentation covers Azure App Services in general and Web Apps specifically. Another technologies described are WebJobs, Visual Studio Online, Mobile Apps etc.
In this presentation we will discuss the evolution of IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, FaaS and how serverless computing is beneficial and what are the challenges we have faced so far
Hybrid integration and the power of Azure services (Jon Fancey at CONNECT17)Codit
This high-powered and interactive presentation shows what can be done with hybrid integration and the power of Azure services. The topics covered include Microsoft BizTalk on-premises, Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, and API Management. Jon’s experience as a Microsoft integration partner, and now at Microsoft HQ, enables him to deliver both great demos and interesting real-life stories from the field.
Integration has traditionally been all about ESB’s, EAI and B2B and the exchange of messages between on-premises systems. Today, many companies wish to integrate beyond their firewall, typically with SaaS based application. This change is reflected in the up rise of API based integration using lightweight protocols. In this session Glenn will talk about the evolution of Enterprise Integration and give you an overview on the current state of the Azure Integration Platform. Dive into its architecture and learn all about Logic Apps and the Enterprise Integration Pack. Learn to create basic IFTT (If This Then That) scenarios, or think big and create enterprise-level, hybrid integration scenarios (using Logic Apps and on premises LOB apps). 'How does it work', 'How is it Made' and 'How does it all fit together’ are just a couple of questions that will be answered during this session.
Azure Logic Apps & AI - Building Integration & AI SolutionsDaniel Toomey
Presentation delivered at the Brisbane Data & AI Bootcamp on Saturday, 18 May 2024. Covers Workflow Assistant and new Azure OpenAI and AI Search connectors.
Architecture of Dynamics CRM with Office 365 and AzurePedro Azevedo
In this session I explained the relationship between Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. Other goal is to explain of easy is to start to develop in this platform.
Code first in the cloud: going serverless with AzureJeremy Likness
The popularity of microservices combined with the emergence of serverless based solutions has transformed how modern developers tackle cloud native apps. Microsoft's Azure cloud provides a feature known as serverless functions (including Azure Functions and Logic Apps) that enable developers to stand up integrated end points leveraging the programming language of their choice without having to worry about the supporting infrastructure. Learn how to develop serverless .NET apps and connect them with queues, web requests, and databases or seamlessly integrate with third-party APIs like Twitter and Slack.
Microsoft's massive investment into Cloud technologies are enough to make anyone stop and wonder if the Cloud is something they should be focusing on for SharePoint. During this full day workshop we will examine Microsoft's Cloud Strategy from an ITPro's perspective and understand how a hybrid scenario can be structured to maximize the On Premises, Infrastructure as a Service, & Cloud capabilities. We will deep dive into deployment planning and implementation across the hybrid stack. We will also discuss and demonstrate the management of the SharePoint platform across all tiers. Join us on this journey from the ground to the cloud and back again!
aOS Canadian Tour Share point migration tipsMike Maadarani
Migrating data into any platform is a difficult task, especially if you are moving into Office 365. If you are migrating to either SharePoint On-Premise or O365, you will need preparation, good planning, and detailed execution activities are keys to avoid migration nightmare.
This session will help you learn a methodology, adopted based on many previous migration, to help you deliver a successful migration project with happy users. We will learn the steps you need in your pre-migration analysis, migration checklists, post migration support, and any issues you might face during and after completing the migration efforts.
Administrators guide to managing Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams a...Chirag Patel
It’s tough managing various workloads within your Microsoft 365 tenant if your organisation has limited IT staff and resources. Here you will learn how to navigate your way to successfully manage and configure various collaboration and information management requirements. During this demo rich session you will get informed with help and advice to best manage your Microsoft 365 Tenant.
Private DNS Infrastructure Support in Hybrid ScenariosDaniel Toomey
A discussion of DNS private resolver architecture, how it is leveraged for private resolution for Azure <-> Azure and Azure <-> On-Prem and other things including private DNS zones and conditional forwarding rules.
As presented to the Brisbane Azure Group by Rachel Calleia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-calleia-669439144/)
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
2. Dan Toomey
• Principal Consultant, Mexia
• Microsoft Azure MVP
• MCSE, MCT, MCPD, MCTS BizTalk & Azure
• Pluralsight Author
• www.mindovermessaging.com
• @daniel2me
Who Am I?
3. Jim Harrer
Principal Group Program Manager, Microsoft
Limitless Possibilities with Azure Integration Services
Acknowledgements
4. Jeff Hollan / Kevin Lam
Program Manager / Principal Program Manager- Microsoft
Azure Logic Apps – build cloud-scale integrations faster
Acknowledgements
27. GA
Performance improvements
Visual Studio 2015 tooling
Visual Studio 2017 tooling
Integration Account
Monitoring view
Diagnostic Alerts
Tracked properties
Parallel actions
EDIFACT
X12
XML transformation parameters
Service Bus batching
Designer improvements
splitOn
Native binary data handling
IP whitelisting
Regenerate access keys
Static Ips
Metadata lookup
Insert action
Table action
Connection resource picker
Multipart formdata/formencoded
Terminate with succeeded
Open Azure Function from designer
Azure Function with HTTP binding
Variables
Multiple actions in Do Until
Nested foreach
Foreach supports 100K entities
Version promotion
Date-time filter for run history
Open nested logic app from
Monitoring
India
Canada
Select action
Join action
Retry information in monitoring
28. Concurrency control
Request trigger OAuth
Draft slot
Run action
Mock Testing
Resubmit from failed action
XSLT with assemblies
JSON message handling
OMS download
Snippets
Condition builder
Configurable logic app lifetime
29. New Pricing Model
Actions Price per execution
Native Actions $0.000025
Standard Connectors $0.000125
Enterprise Connectors $0.001
39. Logic Apps and Functions in Integration
Implement and orchestrate visually
designed integration workflows
Orchestrate distributed microservices
100+ Connectors (Protocols, SaaS apps
and services, and hybrid)
B2B Integrations with AS2 and EDI
Languages supported: C#, F#, Node.js,
Php, PowerShell, Python, bash, batch.
Implement code-based microservices
Different Trigger, Input and Output
bindings
Synchronous and Asynchronous
execution
41. Deployment and management isolation
Customers
Products
Orders
API calls
customers.azurewebsites.net
products.azurewebsites.net
orders.azurewebsites.net
deployment
42. Function app A
/customer
s
Function app B
/products
Function app C
Function
3
/orders
Function
1
API proxy endpoints
HttpTrigger function endpoints
Key:
/products
/orders
Function
2
Interested in all things integration – which of course includes MS Flow
Most of these slides are taken from this presentation at Integrate 2017 USA
Most of these slides are taken from this presentation at Integrate 2017 USA
Most of these slides are taken from this presentation at Integrate 2017 USA
BYO – Data centre, or “server room”; HA?
IaaS – Rent a server
PaaS – Rent a Platform (worry about the app, not the server)
“Serverless” – just gimme the app!
Abstraction of servers
Event=driven / instant scaling
- Micro-billing
Focus on the business logic
Faster time to market
Focus on the business logic!
Lets talk about what really makes up MSFT’s Serverless platform: At the center of the Serverless platform, is our compute offerings: Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps. Azure Functions is an event based Serverless compute experience that helps you accelerate your development. Logic Apps is a powerful workflow and orchestration tool. It enables building a Serverless app in minutes – by orchestrating multiple functions using a visual workflow tool.
Say you have your apps up and running using Serverless. Congratulations! You now need to collect intelligence from different apps across platforms to take actions upon. There are a few essential components which we think are core to building Serverless applications are:
Data/ Storage –Functions has triggers and bindings with Azure document DB and Azure Blob storage
** Triggers: Triggers are event responses used to trigger your custom code. They allow you to respond to events across the Azure platform or on premise.
** Bindings: Bindings represent the necessary meta data used to connect your code to the desired trigger or associated input or output data.
Messaging such as queues and topics using Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs
Integration – that includes core LOB apps and SaaS apps integration via Azure Logic Apps.
Intelligence on data and sentiment/ predictive analysis using Cognitive services and Machine learning
Conversation as a service – how do we equip developers to build apps that offer an end-to-end experience for their end users – Azure Bot Service offers a Serverless interactive bot experience.
More, developers are spending more time writing code that allows them to add huge business impact with Serverless. MSFT offers numerous development tools such as IDE Support for Visual Studio in functions and Logic Apps, enables local development (vs web browser coding environment), visual debugging capability, all with your tools of choice.
Lastly, I also want to highlight top scenarios and use cases for Serverless:
Real-time Stream analytics: Customers can use Functions to feed real-time streams of data from application tracking into structured data and store it in SQL online.
SaaS event processing: Customers can use Functions and Logic Apps to analyze data from an excel file in Onedrive and perform validation, filtration, sorting and convert data into consumable business charts
Web app architecture: Used a lot in creating targeted marketing collaterals – when a customer clicks on a webpage, it triggers a webhook, that uses a function to create an ad that matches the customer profile and displays a completed webpage.
Real-time bot messaging: When customers send a message to a chatbox, Functions calls Cortana analytics to generate appropriate answers and sends a response back.
//from before: Customers have different paths to build a Serverless app – start by building the distributed application components using functions by leveraging the numerous templates and declarative bindings Or
Start with the workflow and orchestration of Serverless application using Azure Logic Apps. The visual designer enables developers to quickly and easily author, edit and visualize orchestration of multiple functions and workflow.
Call out that we now support SQL Triggers
Any REST API
Postman export, swagger/open api definition,
A custom Logic Apps Connector allows you to register a custom HTTP endpoint with operations that will be exposed within Azure Logic Apps", "description": "Use the Logic Apps Connector and editor to build and deploy custom APIs to be consumed within Logic Apps. These APIs can be any RESTful endpoint, including Azure Web APIs, API Management APIs, Azure Functions, and more. Once created, you can open the connector editor to describe the endpoint (via OpenAPI definition or a postman collection), configure how it will display within the Logic Apps designer, and publish the changes
Call out that we now support stored procs on-prem
Invokes Services
Managed connectors
App Service APIs
API Management
Azure Functions
Workflow
HTTP + Swagger
HTTP
Behaviors
Retry policy
Run after
Limit
Operation Options
Response
Webhook
Delay
Terminate
Message Handling
Compose
Query
Table
Request schema
Parse JSON
Xpath & XSLT
XML Validation
Flow Control
Scope
Foreach
DoUntil
Switch
Condition
Expressions & Operators
Invokes Services
Managed connectors
App Service APIs
API Management
Azure Functions
Workflow
HTTP + Swagger
HTTP
Behaviors
Retry policy
Run after
Limit
Operation Options
Response
Webhook
Delay
Terminate
Message Handling
Compose
Query
Table
Request schema
Parse JSON
Xpath & XSLT
XML Validation
Flow Control
Scope
Foreach
DoUntil
Switch
Condition
Expressions & Operators
HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act with Business Associate Agreements (BAAs).
PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards Level 1 version 3.1.
SOC - Service Organization Controls standards for operational security
GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation
What else
What else
Native actions 32x savings
Standard connectors 6x savings
Basic has 50 maps, 50 schemas, 2 partners, 1 agreement
As I mentioned earlier, triggers and bindings are the things that facilitate easy communication with other services. This chart shows us the triggers and bindings currently supported. As we can see, there are a number of Azure services supported here…. for Storage, Database, Messaging, Notifications and so on. In addition to those, Functions also support generic Http triggers, which means you can easily write a piece of code that can be used to respond to REST requests or requests from any service that supports webhooks. This also provides a really fast and easy mechanism for building extensions to SaaS applications. We are fully committed to making this list grow and making more check-marks appear in that table.
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Azure Functions supports an event based on a timer using CRON job syntax. For example, you could execute code that runs every 15 minutes and cleans up a database table based on custom business logic.
Azure Functions supports triggering an event based on an activity in an Azure service. For example, you could execute serverless code that reads newly discovered test log files in an Azure Blob Storage container and transforms this into a row in an Azure SQL Database table.
Azure Functions can power a single page app. The app calls functions using the WebHook URL, saving user data and deciding what data to display. Or, you can do simple customizations, such as changing ad targeting by calling a function and passing it user profile information.
Azure Functions supports triggers based on activity in a SaaS service. For example, when a file is saved in OneDrive, this triggers a function that uses the Microsoft Graph API to modify the spreadsheet, creating additional charts and calculated data.
For example, IoT devices send messages to Azure Stream Analytics, which then calls an Azure Function to transform the message. This function processes the data and creates a new record in an Azure SQL Database.
Azure Functions can be used to customize the behavior of a bot using a WebHook. For example, you can create an Azure Function that processes a message using Cortana Analytics and call this function using Bot Framework.
OOTB Publishers + CustomCapabilities
Here are some of the key features of Azure Event Grid:
Simplicity - Point and click to aim events from your Azure resource to any event handler or endpoint.
Advanced filtering - Filter on event type or event publish path to ensure event handlers only receive relevant events.
Fan-out - Subscribe multiple endpoints to the same event to send copies of the event to as many places as needed.
Reliability - Utilize 24-hour retry with exponential backoff to ensure events are delivered.
Pay-per-event - Pay only for the amount you use Event Grid.
High throughput - Build high-volume workloads on Event Grid with support for millions of events per second.
Built-in Events - Get up and running quickly with resource-defined built-in events.
Custom Events - use Event Grid route, filter, and reliably deliver custom events in your app.
Tord Glad Nordahl : “With dynamic scale and consistent performance Azure Event grid lets you focus on your app logic rather than the infrastructure around it."
Based on Service Fabric
99.99% availability
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/delivery-and-retry
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Event Grid adds a small randomization to all retry intervals.
Service Bus: High-value enterprise messaging - Order processing and financial transactions
Event Hubs: Big data pipeline - Telemetry and distributed data streaming
Event Grid: Reactive programming - React to status changes
West US, East US, West US 2, East US 2, West Central US, Central US, West Europe, North Europe, Southeast Asia, and East Asia with more coming soon.
Connect data sources and event handlers.
Speed automation and simplify policy enforcement.
Connect your app with other services.
In this fourth lab, we will be receiving the orders from the business customer’s topic in a new Logic App, and check the total amount of the invoice. In case the customer placed a large order (over $50000), we will create a task for one of our sales employees to contact the customer to verify the order. In case the order is correct, the invoice will be emailed to the customer. The Logic App will then call a function, in which we will check a storage table to determine how much discount the customer will be given (based on the total order amount), and finally will place a file on blob storage, which will be used by an employee to refund the customer.