Top 15 Azure Serverless Blogs of 2018
Curated by Serverless360 team, We have consolidated some of the popular Azure Serverless blogs of 2018.
In order event processing with Azure Functions
Jeff Hollan | Senior Program Manager (Azure Functions)
[FunctionName("EventHubTrigger")]
public static async Task RunAsync([EventHubTrigger("ordered", Connection = "EventHub")] EventData[] eventDataSet, TraceWriter log)
{
log.Info($"Triggered batch of size {eventDataSet.Length}");
foreach (var eventData in eventDataSet) {
try
{
await db.ListRightPushAsync("events:" + eventData.Properties["partitionKey"], (string)eventData.Properties["counter"]);
}
catch
{
// handle event exception
}
}
}A way to guarantee events processing in a specific order, when serverless can scale and be running on multiple parallel instances.
Azure Event Grid: Glue for the Internet
Jeremy Likness | Cloud Developer Advocate (Microsoft Azure)
Event Grid can provide a fully functional event-driven pub-sub backbone up and runs without having to worry about the infrastructure just by a few clicks.
How To Build A Reactive Solution With Azure Event Grid
Steef-Jan Wiggers | Microsoft Azure MVP
Event Grid is a service in Azure that enables central management of events. It provides intelligent routing with filters and standardizes on an event scheme.
Use the Serverless Cloud for ETL Scenarios
Jeremy Likness | Cloud Developer Advocate (Microsoft Azure)
Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) is a common scenario in enterprise applications that serverless applications are uniquely positioned to address.
When to use Logic Apps and Azure Functions
Steef-Jan Wiggers | Microsoft Azure MVP
All you need to know about Azure Logic Apps and Functions regarding how to use both in a cloud-native integration scenario, comparing Logic Apps and Azure Functions, and when to use either one of them.
Reliable Event Processing in Azure Functions
Jeff Hollan | Senior Program Manager (Azure Functions)
Learn to create a reliable message processor to avoid losing any messages during event processing.
How to deal with large Service Bus messages
Sean Feldman | Microsoft Azure MVP
Get an overview of the options available to deal with large Service Bus messages.
Serverless application architecture, patterns, and implementation
Jeremy Likness | Cloud Developer Advocate (Microsoft Azure)
An overview of serverless with implementations using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid with the help of an e-Book.
Real World Azure Serverless Use Case to Implement a B2B API
Michael Stephenson | Microsoft Azure MVP
An interesting blog which explains the benefits of using the serverless components on Azure to implement a B2B API with the help of a use case scenario.
Azure Functions: Choosing between queues and event hubs
Jeff Hollan | Senior Program Manager (Azure Functions)
Each of these messaging technologies comes with its own set of behaviors that can impact your solution. This blog will show that choosing the wrong messaging pipeline can result in a magnitude difference in processing time.
How to build a serverless report server with Azure Functions and SendGrid
Burke Holland | Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft
Explore a way to make use of SendGrid’s template functionality using Timer Triggers in Azure Functions to send out scheduled tabular reports.
Throttling conditions to be considered in Messaging platform — Service Bus
Eldert Grootenboer | Microsoft Azure MVP
A brief outlook on Service Bus throttling conditions and how to handle them.
Making Sense of Azure Durable Functions
Mikhail Shilkov | Microsoft Azure MVP
Durable Function is a library that brings workflow orchestration abstractions to Azure Functions. It introduces a number of idioms and tools to define stateful, potentially long-running operations, and manages a lot of mechanics of reliable communication behind the scenes.
Custom Connectors in Azure Logic Apps
Kent Weare | Microsoft Azure MVP
This article helps readers to take a walk through creating and deploying a custom connector for Azure Logic Apps.
A Fairy Tale of F# and Durable Functions
Mikhail Shilkov | Microsoft Azure MVP
The goal of Azure durable function and F# is to make workflow composition natural and enjoyable for F# developers.
