The world is fighting with COVID-19 relentlessly and these days showed me that pandemics will continue causing problems even after we beat this one. The lesson learned from those bad days is that software plays and will play a crucial role in combating the next insane problem that human beings will face. Serverless paradigm is our hope to deliver modern, fast, reliable and robust applications for many reasons such as ultimate scalability, easiness to build something from scratch.

Azure Functions has recently released its new version “Azure Functions 3.0” and it is generally available now. This blog is all about the upgraded version and how far it is scaled up from the previous versions. Any business architecture will involve Azure Functions, this need provokes the necessity of upgradation in such resources.

As a team that does pure serverless, we place a lot of emphasis on fast deployments. Lately, though, as our codebase has gotten larger, and the number of interactions between the microservices has increased, we have come up against the classic problem of excessively long test execution times in our serverless continuous integration.

Thanks to the continuous innovation in delivering event-driven distributed architectures, application-level services that used to be one monolith application are now composed of many serverless applications on AWS Lambda and/or AWS Fargate. Checking up on the health of a single application can only give limited visibility, and doesn’t bring understanding about the health and behavior of a distributed application. Developers/DevOps should have a more holistic way of understanding system behavior.

If you are a Node.js developer or you’ve built an API with Node.js, there’s a good chance you have used Express.js. Express is one of the most popular Node.js frameworks. It provides lightweight, powerful tools for HTTP servers. It’s a great framework for single-page apps, websites, hybrids, or public HTTP APIs.

At this moment, billions of people are rushing to the internet for work, entertainment, shopping - everything, really. It’s great that we developed this virtual world and can keep the lights on, despite what’s happening outside. On the other hand, cloud systems and developers are under pressure to meet an unparalleled demand. At Dashbird, we have always thought developers deserve the most efficient tools to discover and resolve issues in order to keep cloud apps running smoothly.

The experts from Azure Functions team has yet again joined us for the monthly webcast. Given the unprecedented time, this webcast happened a bit unusual where the folks joined from their home rather from Channel 9 studio and which made this webcast even more unique and exciting. In this session, Jeff Hollan, Eduardo and Alex Karcher have joined to give us the picture of the latest happenings in the Azure Functions space.