The latest articles on DEV Community by Debobrata Bose (@debobrata82). https://dev.to/debobrata82 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F500562%2Fd45b8bc8-d135-4017-bfd3-e118b9e958d8.jpeg https://dev.to/debobrata82 en Debobrata Bose Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:20:33 +0000 https://dev.to/debobrata82/serverless-python-chatbot-in-azure-4fb0 https://dev.to/debobrata82/serverless-python-chatbot-in-azure-4fb0 <p>Why Chat Bots?<br> Chatbots becoming increasingly prominent in organizations around the world. The exchange of information between companies and costumers to completely replacing any middle layer teams.<br> We can expect that up to 75% of queries in the customer service sector will be handled by bots by 2022 driving business costs of more than 10 billion dollars per year.</p> <p>Why Serverless?<br> Serverless computing is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their customers.<br> It works on pay per usage consumption model. It is PaaS offering or FaaS (Functions as a Service) HA (highly available), scalable and it support polygot application deployment. </p> <p>Following are few steps to get your bot built and set up.<br> What you will need is simply an Azure Subscription, Visual Studio Code (VSCode) installed in your machine alongside some version of Python!</p> <p>Step 1: Register a new Web App Bot service on Azure Portal<br> Step 2: Set up Azure access through VSCode<br> Step 3: Create a new Azure Function App project<br> Step 4: Modify the code for your Function App<br> Step 5: Test your API locally<br> Step 6: Deploy your Function App to Azure<br> Step 7: Connecting the BOT to the Server-less Function<br> Step 8: Publishing your Bot to a Channel<br> Step 9: Publish your Bot App to MSTeams/Slack</p> python azure serverless