Serverless
Posted on Tuesday, Oct 3, 2017
Azure Functions is a Serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Use Azure Functions to run a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events.
Show Notes
00:00 - 00:30 - Intro
00:30 - 2:45 - Guest Bio’s (Donna and Fabio)
02:46 -05:55 - Overview of what Azure Functions / Serverless is
05:56 - 06:35 - What isn’t Serverless a good fit for?
06:36 - What makes functions unique?
9:25 - GitHub Repo for Azure Functions
11:48 - Function built on webjobs
12:09 - Cross platform (Windows / OSX ) (Ignite Demo, Fabio)
13:15 - Functions locally as an intelligent edge - on premises runtime (Build, Sam George)
14:50 - Accuweather case study
15.20 - CarMax Case study
16:14 - Blog post 100,000 messages per second using event hubs (Paul Battam)
19.29 - Managed Service Identity
20:41 - Sasha’s Book Serverless Computing
24:30 - Blog post to xplat build experience
29:00 - Functions as App Service Plan vs consumption
31:00 - Misconceptions
37:29 - Best Practices Azure Functions
37:50 - Future of Azure Functions
39:14 - Functions 2.0 preview (need help with this one)
39:52 - Go Do’s
Functions twitter - @azurefunctions
Guests
Donna Malayeri
Donna Malayeri is a program manager on the Azure Functions team, where she is responsible for the developer experience and the Visual Studio tooling. She previously worked on products such as Azure Mobile Services, Reactive Extensions (Rx), Visual F#, and Scala. She holds a PhD in programming languages from Carnegie Mellon University.
