What have I learned so far with Azure?

So I have been getting my hands on Azure recently and just wanted to blog about what I have learned so far so here goes (condensed version as wanting to get back to learning way more)

App Service Plans

• What the different levels are Basic, Standard and Premium and what the differences are.
• App service plans govern how you pay for it
• Scale out – beef up the VM or the server
• Scale up – run more than one instance etc.
• You can have staging environments and automated backups
• Consumption plan – only pay for what u use

What is Serverless?

• There are still servers of course – you delegate the management of them to third party offerings
• Use third party Paas wherever possible (for example documentDB)
• Run your custom code on Azure Functions
  – respond to events
  – let the framework work out how many servers you need
  – Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Benefits of Azure functions?

• Rapid and simple development module
• Code it within the portal
• Eliminate boilerplate
• Extremely reach feature set
• CI, Kudu, Easy Auth, Certs, Custom Domains, Settings etc. all included
• Cost effective pricing – only pay for what you use
• No servers to maintain
• Automatic scaling

Next up is Azure Functions…