Introduction to Serverless Functions
summary
Uses PowerShell, C# (including C# function invoking PowerShell), message queues and REST APIs to build production serverless glue. Shows a live solution: GitHub commit → queue → function → HTML to eliminate raw GitHub latency and make docs near‑instant. Calls out real failures: experimental PowerShell on Azure Functions has concurrency and shared‑process issues, cold/warm starts and workarounds like init ping, and contrasts Azure’s shared worker model with AWS Lambda’s process‑level isolation. Gives concrete limits, pricing thresholds and deployment tradeoffs.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Kirk Monroe introduction
- 2:59Serverless value for DevOps
- 9:17Serverless is not as simple as it sounds
- 11:23Azure Functions AWS Lambda
- 14:53Powershell Azure Functions
- 17:43Azure Functions 2.x Core
- 18:04Serverless architecture
- 22:15Powershell concurrency issues
- 29:58Cold starts performance
- 36:17Packaging serverless functions
- 37:21AWS Lambda differences
- 40:29Event-driven APIs
- 43:45Durable functions tasks
- 44:46Serverless limits
- 46:10Resources sessions
- 47:14Q&A
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