Azure FUN-ctions

An Introduction to Serverless Compute
on the .NET Cloud

By me, Kyle Mitofsky, a developer

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___aaS

• Infastructure (VM)
• Platform (Container)
• Functions (micro-service)

Note: Abstraction + Provider

Concern vs. Control

Con(cern + trol)

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Azure

smaller, better, faster

• Virtual Machines
• Web Apps + Web Jobs
• Logic Apps + Event Grids
• Functions

Ecosystem

Azure is Pickle Jar

Note: if you have data, azure wants it. Also plays host to hundreds of Saas providers

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Functions

Events + Code

Triggers

• HTTP
• Timer
• Event Grid
• Blob Storage
• Table Storage
• Queue Storage
• + many many more

Bindings

Syntatic Sugar

Input & Output

Binding Types

• Http
• Blob Storage
• Queue Storage
• Notification Hubs
• Twilio
• Send Grid
• + many many more

Scaling

• Resources ✓
• Architecture ?

Pricing

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Tooling

• Visual Studio Code
  • Amazing Extension Market
• Postman
• Azure Table Storage Explorer

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CloudTable CRUD

var credentials = new StorageCredentials("<name>", "<account-key>");
var storageAccount = new CloudStorageAccount(credentials, true);
var tableClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudTableClient();
var myTable = tableClient.GetTableReference("<table-name>");

Create

var data = new MyTableEntity() { Name = "Kyle" };
var operation = TableOperation.Insert(data);
var result = await myTable.ExecuteAsync(operation);

Read

var operation = TableOperation.Retrieve<MyTableEntity>("key", id);
var result = await myTable.ExecuteAsync(operation);

Delete

var operation = TableOperation.Delete(myTableEntity);
var result = await myTable.ExecuteAsync(operation);

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Demo Time

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Resources

• * as a Service
• Function - Triggers and Bindings