Serverless September Weekly Content Wrap-Up - Week 3
Tags: serverless, azure, webdev, tutorial
Published: 2019-09-23 12:51:09

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title: Serverless September Weekly Content Wrap-Up - Week 3
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description: Check out what happened in week three of #ServerlessSeptember on dev.to and Twitter.
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This is a weekly wrap-up of #ServerlessSeptember 2019. It's here to capture what happened during the past week and intends to help you if you couldn't follow along on a daily base. 

You can find the full daily updated content collection [here](https://dev.to/azure/serverless-september-content-collection-2fhb).  

Find out more about Microsoft Azure and Serverless on [https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-functions/](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-functions/?WT.mc_id=servsept_devto-blog-cxa).

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These articles got published during week three:

- {% link https://dev.to/humbertojaimes/xamarin-azure-functions-in-action-3afn %}
The tutorial will explain how to create a backend using Azure Functions for a Mobile Apps. 
During the tutorial I am going to explain how to create a function with the blob trigger, the function will consume a cognitive service and maybe after a validation it can send a push notification to the Azure Notification Hub.
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- {% link https://dev.to/daverendon/leverage-serverless-microsoft-azure-functions-and-azure-alerts-to-ensure-application-availability-2l73 %}
On this article we will review how to effectively make use of Azure Functions and Azure Alerts to ensure application availability. Dave demonstrates how to leverage Azure Functions and Azure Alerts to enable an automated failover for a Virtual Machine on Azure.
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- {% link https://dev.to/jfellien/3-14-ist-nicht-immer-ikd %}
Es handelt sich nicht um eine philosophische Mathematikdiskussion, auch wenn das der Titel nahe legt. Vielmehr geht es um die Geschichte, wie es dazu kam 3,14 Milliarden Azure Functions quasi parallel laufen zu lassen. Eine wahre Geschichte, denn mir ist es passiert.
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- {% link https://dev.to/heyayush/how-to-build-google-actions-using-azure-functions-34d1 %}
I'm going to show you how to use Azure functions to build an Action for Google Assistant.
More precisely we will look at how we can do fulfillment by webhook in Dialogflow, using a backend by Azure Functions.
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- {% link https://dev.to/azure/create-and-test-a-javascript-node-js-serverless-function-on-azure-2d3 %}
In this second part of the series "Moving from Lambda to Azure Functions" Jeremy LIkness video walks you through how to create the host, write simple code using JavaScript and Node.js, and test the function from your browser and the command line.
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- {% link https://dev.to/icebeam7/developing-a-serverless-whatsapp-chatbot-4o72 %}
This will be a series of articles, as I'll cover several technologies. The idea is to write about the development of a chatbot that is built with LUIS (for Natural Language Processing of the messages) and Azure Functions (which uses the Twilio binding) for the communication between the user and the bot. I'll try to include the WhatsApp integration (with Twilio) as I consider this will make it more interesting for the audience.
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- {% link https://dev.to/azure/diving-into-durable-entities-with-azure-functions-173e %}
Durable Entities is a new feature that will be available in Durable Functions v2, and will enable a new class of stateful patterns for Azure Functions.
In this episode, Chris Gillum and Sebastian Burckhardt sit down with Jeremy to give us the rundown on Durable Entities. They talk about the differences compared to the actor model,  invoking entities via HTTP, and more.
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- {% link https://dev.to/jamesrandall/elegant-azure-functions-development-in-c-with-function-monkey-1ea7 %}
Using commanding and mediator patterns to make it easy to develop testable Azure Functions with less boilerplate.
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- {% link https://dev.to/azure/move-a-simple-javascript-node-js-aws-lambda-function-to-azure-431l %}
If you are considering moving your serverless code from AWS Lambda to Azure Functions then this article is for you. Learn how to migrate from one serverless to the other.
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- {% link https://dev.to/azure/how-you-can-build-a-serverless-net-core-api-in-no-time-with-bindings-and-cosmosdb-2eg8 %}
Learn the basic concepts of Serverless in .Net Core and how to do a CRUD against a database
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- {% link https://dev.to/azure/is-serverless-really-as-cheap-as-everyone-claims-4i9n %}
In a Serverless app, you only pay when the app is running. Which sounds awesome! Why pay for an app that's up all the time if you can get away with only paying for it while it's busy?
In this article, we'll be breaking down the cost of Azure Functions and do a sample calculation with Facebook's traffic.
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- {% link https://dev.to/azure/shifting-your-node-express-apis-to-serverless-b87 %}
Your node and express app has proven to be a staple for serving your API endpoints. But what if you could write your same APIs and not worry about server setup or maintenance? Leaning on your express experience you can shift your APIs to serverless with minimal effort resulting in an APi that scales well and lets you focus on the code, not the servers.
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