azure functions - get rid of your servers, use functions!
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Get rid of your servers!
Use functions☁ + </> = 👊
Manuela RinkTechnical Evangelist@
#0The Theoretical Part**no excuses – first part needs to be theory!
Transformation from own “iron” to cloud VMs
Transformation from VMs to microservices / functions
We’ve come a long long way togetherThe cloud evolution
Serverlessor
Jeff*or
“just the next pig which is chased through the village?”
* Serverless is just a name, Paul Johnston
“[…] is a cloud computing code execution model in which the cloud provider fully manages starting and stopping virtual machines as necessary to serve requests, and requests are billed by an abstract measure of the resources required to satisfy the request, rather than per virtual machine, per hour.”
-- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
“Quick and easyrun pieces of code* in the cloud, without worrying about infrastructure or maintenance.”
-- Manu Rink, 2016
*of various size
AWS LambdaGA since April 2015
Azure FunctionsGA since November 2016
#1Functions!!!11eleven
*not long until the demos, I swear!
Code Events + data
Azure Functions
Inspired by Chris Anderson @ Microsoft
code outputinput
Inspired by Matthew Henderson @ Microsoft
“Function App” is a group of functions
“Function App”
foo()
bar()
foobar()
Inspired by Matthew Henderson @ Microsoft
Inherit from / Build on top of App Services
Full control of dependencies and connectors
Choose your fav language and coding
environment
Powerful integration of you existing Azure apps
Choose from a wide variety of triggers
100% operated
Open sourced
App Service Features and CapabilitiesEnterprise Grade AppsDesigned for secure mission-critical applications
Fully Managed PlatformOptimized for Availability and Automatic scale
High Productivity DevelopmentAgility through Continuous DeploymentHybrid Connections / VPN / VLAN
Scheduled BackupAzure Active Directory Integration Site Resiliency, HA, and DRWeb JobsRole Base Access Control Audit / Compliance Enterprise MigrationClient Certs CacheIP Restrictions/ SSLWeb SocketsSQL, MySQL, DocDB, & MongoSticky Sessions Authorization/ Authentication
Automated DeploymentAutoScaleBuilt-in Load BalancingWorldwide Datacenter CoverageEnd Point Monitoring & AlertsApp GalleryDR Site SupportWildCard SupportDedicated IP addressHTTP Compression CDN Support for WebsitesPremium WordPressApp Services Environments
Remote Debugging w/ Visual Studio Site Staging SlotsTesting in ProductionContinuous Integration/Deployment Git, Visual Studio Online and GitHubApp & Site DiagnosticsOS & Framework Patching Site Extensions Gallery NET, PHP, Python, Node, JavaFramework InstallerBrowser-based editingAuto-HealingLogging and Auditing Admin-SiteSupport Site Extension
Inspired by Matthew Henderson @ Microsoft
Templates• Azure Internal Service Triggers
• Blob• EventHub• Storage Queue• Service Bus Queue• Service Bus Topic
• Generic Triggers• Generic WebHook• GitHub WebHook• Http • Timer
Languages• Core• C#• JS/Node
• Experimental• PowerShell• Python• PHP• F#• Bash
#2Building the real stuff*!… in 4 stages*finally!
Yeaaah, but what can I build with ’em?
Scenario 0The Easy Cake
use HTTP trigger to provide HTTP endpointsto
build a Hello Cake endpoint
Scenario 0 – Easy cake! – Simple HTTP endpoint
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EasyCake
LIVE DEMO
Scenario 1Connect all the things!
use web hooks for wiring up heterogeneous services
to
connect Slack with your mobile backend
Scenario 1 - Connect all the things! – Slack & mobile backend
The Serverless Connector - Use Functions to write Slack posts in your mobile backend
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Connectall thethings!
LIVE DEMO
Scenario 2Like a pro!
use Blob Trigger to let function react on storage I/O of other function
to
build an image resizing service
Scenario 2 - Like a pro! – Image Resizing Service
https://github.com/codePrincess/resizingService
Scenario 2 - Like a pro! – Image Resizing Service
https://github.com/codePrincess/resizingService
Scenario 2 - Like a pro! – Image Resizing Service
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Likeapro!
LIVE DEMO
Scenario 3The Fun Stuff!
use OCR of CS Computer Vision API and text detection logic in a function
to
build an identification card validation service
Scenario 3 – The fun stuff! – ID card validation service
https://github.com/codePrincess/funkyVerfication
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The funstuff!
LIVE DEMO
#3a Penny saved is a penny goT**’nuff said!
Cool stuff so far … and the costs?
*for the 1 million executions and the first 400.000 GB/s
It’s free*
Function executes 2.000.000 times with a duration of 1 second using 1536MB RAM
Resource consumption costs
2 million exec * 1 second = 2 million seconds1536 MB / 1024 MB = 1.5 GB1.5 GB * 2 million seconds = 3 million GBs3 million GBs – 400000 GBs = 2.6 million GBs2.6 million GBs * 0.000014 $/GBs = 41.60 $
Execution costs
2 million exec - 1 million exec = 1 million exec 1 million exec * 0.20$ = 0.20$
41.60$ + 0.20$ = 41.80$
Pricing OverviewPricing Calculator
Same example – just with 128MB RAM
0 $ + 0.20$ = 0.20$
Resource consumption costs
2 million exec * 1 second = 2 million seconds128 MB / 1024 MB = 0.125 GB0.125 GB * 2 million seconds = 0.25 million GBs0.25 million GBs – 400000 GBs = 0 GBs0 million GBs * 0.000016 $/GBs = 0 $
Execution costs
2 million exec - 1 million exec = 1 million exec 1 million exec * 0.20$ = 0.20$
#4... This is the end!
😻Easy to build & deploy – 100% operated
Various languages supported
Lot of triggers available
Inter-connectable in- & outside of Azure
Cost effective
#5... Where to go from here?
📚 Azure Functions documentationhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/
👸 Blogposts with How-Tos and source code to all examples in this deckhttps://medium.com/royallyserverless
😻 Nice and neat link and learning materialhttps://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2016/12/01/running-azure-functions-locally-with-the-cli/ https://www.npmjs.com/package/azure-functions-cli https://contos.io/azure-functions-cli-quick-start-ee843dfbe72c#.v90g0n77d
🎉 Brandnew – Azure Functions now part of the Serverless Framework https://serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/azure/
It’s dangerous to go alone - take this!
