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Chapter 1: Accelerate Your Cloud Application Development Using Azure Function Triggers and Bindings
Building a backend Web API using HTTP triggers
Persisting employee details using Azure Storage table output bindings
Understanding more about Storage Connection
What is Azure Table storage service?
Partition key and row key
Saving the profile images to Queues using Queue output bindings
Storing the image in Azure Blob storage
Cropping an image using ImageResizer trigger
Chapter 2: Working with Notifications Using SendGrid and Twilio Services
Sending an email notification to the administrator of the website using the SendGrid service
Creating a SendGrid account
Generating the SendGrid API key
Configuring the SendGrid API key with the Azure Function app
Sending an email notification to the end user dynamically
Implementing email logging in the Blob storage
Modifying the email content to include an attachment
Customizing the log file name using IBinder interface
Adding an attachment to the email
Sending SMS notification to the end user using the Twilio service
Chapter 3: Seamless Integration of Azure Functions with Other Azure Services
Using Cognitive Services to locate faces from the images
Creating a new Computer Vision API account
Azure SQL Database interactions using Azure Functions
Processing a file stored in OneDrive using an external file trigger
Monitoring tweets using Logic Apps and notifying when popular users tweet
Designing the Logic App with Twitter and Gmail connectors
Testing the Logic App functionality
Integrating Logic Apps with Azure Functions
Chapter 4: Understanding the Integrated Developer Experience of Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions
Creating the function app using Visual Studio 2017
Debugging C# Azure Functions on a local staged environment using Visual Studio 2017
Connecting to the Azure Cloud storage from local Visual Studio environment
Deploying the Azure Function app to Azure Cloud using Visual Studio
Debugging live C# Azure Function hosted on the Microsoft Azure Cloud environment using Visual Studio
Chapter 5: Exploring Testing Tools for the Validation of Azure Functions
Testing HTTP triggers using Postman
Testing Blob trigger using the Microsoft Storage Explorer
Testing Queue trigger using the Azure Management portal
Testing an Azure Function on a staged environment using deployment slots
Load testing Azure Functions using VSTS
Creating and testing Azure Function locally using Azure CLI tools
Testing and validating Azure Function responsiveness using Application Insights
Chapter 6: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Azure Serverless Services
Monitoring your Azure Functions
Monitoring Azure Functions using Application Insights
Pushing custom telemetry details to analytics of Application Insights
Integrating and testing AI query
Configuring the custom derived metric report
Sending application telemetry details via email
Integrating real-time AI monitoring data with Power BI using Azure Functions
Configuring Power BI with dashboard, dataset, and push URI
Creating Azure AI real-time Power BI - C# function
Chapter 7: Code Reusability and Refactoring the Code in Azure Functions
Creating a common code repository for better manageability within a function app
Shared code across Azure Functions using class libraries
Azure Functions and precompiled assemblies
Creating a class library using Visual Studio
Creating a new HTTP trigger Azure Function
Migrating legacy C# application classes to Azure Functions using PowerShell
Creating an application using Visual Studio
Creating a new PowerShell Azure Function
Using strongly typed classes in Azure Functions
Chapter 8: Developing Reliable and Durable Serverless Applications Using Durable Functions
Configuring Durable Functions in the Azure Management portal
Creating a hello world Durable Function app
Creating HttpStart Function - the Orchestrator client
Creating Orchestrator function
Creating Activity function
Testing and troubleshooting Durable Functions
Implementing multithreaded reliable applications using Durable Functions
Creating Orchestrator function
Creating Activity function GetAllCustomers
Creating Activity function CreateQRCodeImagesPerCustomer
Chapter 9: Implement Best Practices for Azure Functions
Adding multiple messages to a Queue using the IAsyncCollector function
Implementing defensive applications using Azure Functions and Queue triggers
CreateQueueMessage - C# Console Application
Developing the Azure Function - Queue trigger
Running tests using the Console Application
Handling massive ingress using Event Hub for IoT and similar scenarios
Creating an Azure Function Event Hub trigger
Developing a Console Application that simulates IoT data
Enabling authorization for function apps
Controlling access to Azure Functions using function keys
Configuring the function key for each application
Configuring one host key for all the functions in a single function app
Chapter 10: Implement Continuous Integration and Deployment of Azure Functions Using Visual Studio Team Services
Continuous integration - creating a build definition
Continuous integration - queuing the build and trigger manually
Configuring and triggering the automated build
Creating a release definition
Trigger the release automatically