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Skills Learned

• Skills Learned
  • Describe Serverless computing and Azure products that are available for serverless computing such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Event Grid
• Study Guide
  • Microsoft Azure: Functions
  • Microsoft Azure: Logic Apps
  • Microsoft Azure: Event Grid
• Expand your knowledge - extra resources
  • Microsoft Documentation: Functions
  • Microsoft Documentation: Logic Apps
  • Microsoft Documentation: Event Grid
  • Azure Logic Apps Tutorial
  • Azure Function Apps Tutorial | Introduction for serverless programming
  • Azure Event Grid Tutorial

What is Serverless?

Serverless computing is cloud-hosted execution environment that allows customers to run their applications in the cloud while completely abstracting underlying infrastructure.

Azure Functions

• Serverless coding platform (Functions as a Service, FaaS)
• Designed for nano-service architectures and event-based applications
• Scales up and down very quickly
• Highly scalable
• Supports popular languages and frameworks (.NET & .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PowerShell, etc.)

Azure Logic Apps

• Serverless enterprise integration service (PaaS)
• 200+ connectors for popular services
• Designed for orchestration of
  • business processes,
  • integration workflows for applications, data, systems and services
• No-code solution

Azure Event Grid

• Fully managed serverless event routing service
• Uses publish-subscribe model
• Designed for event-based and near-real time applications
• Supports dozen of built-in events from most common Azure services