Azure Functions PowerShell: The Missing Manual

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Demos show concrete techniques and outcomes: a push http binding module that replaces awkward HTTP output binding plumbing; local development using azurite and VS Code tasks; Pester tests with auto‑run and live attach debugging to the Functions host; direct Application Insights telemetry via the built‑in AI client instead of opaque rpc wrappers. One production function handles 6.24 million invocations per month at ~0.5s average, costs about $8/month, scales across 26 regions and runs unchanged for three years.

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1. 0:00Azure Functions and PowerShell intro
2. 3:27Azure Functions architecture
3. 7:15HTTP output bindings demo
4. 15:22Testing with Pester locally
5. 22:04Debugging step-by-step
6. 29:24Application Insights telemetry
7. 36:26Custom exception tracking
8. 41:39Binding to PowerShell modules
9. 43:05Leveraging .NET attributes
10. 44:32Ticketing system integration

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