Introduction to Azure Functions

This lesson is an introduction to Azure Functions. It explains how Azure Functions are little bits of your application logic that live in the cloud. The lesson includes how to activate—or what we call trigger—your Azure Functions, how to pass data to and from them, and also how to tie different Azure Functions together using an extension of Azure Functions called Durable Functions. 

This lesson provides hands-on demonstrations of how to create different kinds of Azure Functions, how to create bindings to other Azure Services from those functions, and how to create a Durable Function to manage state from one Azure Function to the next.

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Learning Objectives

• Create Azure Functions with different types of Triggers
• Implement input and output bindings to different types of data resources
• Create Durable Functions to orchestrate related Azure Functions
• Log the results with Dependency Injection

Intended Audience

Software developers who want to learn how to implement Azure Functions as a part of their cloud software design.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should have some experience will the following:

• Event-driven programming
• Servers and APIs
• Coding with C# and JSON
• Project creation in Visual Studio

Resources

The GitHub repository for this lesson can be found here.