Serverless - Focus on code!

vivek sridhar — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:34:36 +0000

I delivered a session on serverless for the TopCoder community!

In the session, I have covered - how to accelerate application development with serverless computing, develop apps efficiently, and solve complex orchestration problems. We will see how to build, debug locally, and operate at scale in the cloud and integrate services using triggers and bindings.

Learn Azure Fundamentals via challenges and code samples

vivek sridhar — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 01:57:59 +0000

The developers often ask me at meetups/conferences on how to get started with Azure, and I would end up pointing them to product documentation or docs.com. But developers need more, and hence, I designed below challenges to get started with Azure & to learn new technologies hands-on.

Resource Links & References

Interested in the cloud, but aren't quite sure what it can do for you? This path is the place to start - Azure Fundamentals.
Explore Code Samples for different services.
Explore some MS Learn Content on AI & ML.
Learn more about Azure App Service.
Learn about containers & kubernetes - ebook.
Azure for Developers - GitHub repo.

Challenges - Virtual Machines

Challenge 1 - Build a scalable application with Azure Virtual Machine scale sets

Challenge 2 - Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI (Create, Start/Stop VM, Install software on VM)

Challenge 3 - Build a basic website using Quickstart Azure Resource Manager templates

Challenge 4 - Build and run a web application with the MEAN stack on an Azure Linux virtual machine

Challenge 5 - Backup Azure Virtual Machine & Restore Virtual Machine with data

Challenge 6 - Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by collecting and analyzing diagnostic data (Metrics Like - CPU, Data Disk, Network, OS disk, etc.)

Challenges - App Service

Challenge 1 - Build a Python (Django) web app with PostgreSQL in the Azure App Service (Sample code)

Challenge 2 - Dockerize Sample Code; build a custom image and run in App Service from an Azure Container registry

Challenge 3 - Build a Node.js and MongoDB app in azure using the Azure App Service

Challenge 4 - Deploy Sample Code using Azure App Service from visual studio, CLI & Powershell

Challenge 5 - Deploy to Azure App Service by using the Jenkins plugin

Challenges - Serverless

Challenge 1 - Create an HTTP triggered Python function in Azure

Challenge 2 - Create a blob trigger to invoke a function when a blob is created or updated in Azure Storage

Challenge 3 - Create a function app that deploys from a GitHub repository, Azure DevOps Repository

Challenge 4 - Create a function app using CosmosDBTrigger and connect it to an Azure Cosmos DB

Challenge 5 - Deploy a Python or a Java app using Azure CLI & Azure Functions Tools

Challenge 6 - Deploy Functions with Logic Apps and Cognitive Services on Azure to run sentiment analysis from Twitter posts. An email to be sent when poor sentiment is detected

Challenges - AI + Machine Learning

Challenge 1 - Use Azure Cognitive Services to build a translator app hosted on Azure App Service - Reference

Challenge 2 - Build & deploy FAQ page using chatbots (Example)

I will be adding more challenges in my next post on Containers, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and more.