Serverless – We’ve all heard it, we’ve all probably used it, but do we all know what it is and why it is such a hot topic? Well, in this episode of #AzureHappyHours Liam will show us how he uses Azure Functions to interact with Azure Cosmos DB from almost entirely within his Visual Studio Code environment and explain the benefits of serverless compute in a cloud focused architecture.

The session will focus on-

-Azure Functions
-Azure Cosmos DB triggers
-VS Code Azure Plugin

What will the attendees learn from session?
-How to utilise your Visual Studio Code Azure plugin effectively
-Understand the benefits of using serverless compute in your architecture
-How to connect Azure Functions to an instance of Azure Cosmos DB and how to interact with it .

Further Learning :
https://aka.ms/AzFunctions-LM
https://aka.ms/AzFunctions/Triggers-LM

Guest Speaker Info: Liam Hampton

Speaker BIO : Liam is a Cloud Advocate for Microsoft, UK. He uses his wealth of knowledge to create fun and engaging developer content, blogs, workshops, events and speaking engagements. Liam has previous professional experience as a Software Developer working on and contributing to open source projects, mentoring global teams and leading local developer initiatives. He also holds a number of professional cloud certifications and was previously part of a team that reached the global finals of IBM Call for Code with an AI project. Liam now focuses his work on DevOps, IoT, serverless compute and containerization.

Social handles:
Twitter- https://twitter.com/liamchampton
GitHub - https://github.com/liamchampton
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-conroy-hampton/

Speaker Info: Vivek Sridhar

Speaker BIO : Vivek is a technophile and an Open Source contributor with around 15 years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as Senior Cloud Advocate. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps and QA at BlackBuck and was a DevOps Solution Architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer.

Social Handle
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivek_sridhar