Serverless Azure Functions: Debugging, Deployment and Chatbots [Video]
This is the code repository for Serverless Azure Functions: Debugging, Deployment and Chatbots [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.
About the Video Course
Azure Functions provides great solutions for processing data, integrating systems, and building simple APIs to complex micro-services without having to worry about underlying infrastructure for scalability. This volume covers how a serverless application can be designed.
By the end of the course you'll have mastered how Azure Functions can be a great tool to design highly scalable web services. You'll also have created an production-level solution of a chatbot with serverless tools such as CosmosDB and Queues with a good understanding of why they were chosen and how they play an important role in the design of the serverless architecture.
What You Will Learn
- How to setup the codebase and debug it on local machine.
- Continuous Deployment with GitHub and Local Repository.
- Best practices for serverless technology and solution to cold-start issue.
- Logging and monitoring in real time.
- Implementation of a scalable and highly available solution for the chatbot use case
Instructions and Navigation
Assumed Knowledge
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
- Web Services and common challenges.
- Basic knowledge of NodeJs.
- Basic cloud computing with Azure.
Technical Requirements
This course has the following software requirements:
- Web browser such as Google Chrome or its equivalent
- Visual Studio Code or its equivalent editor