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.

Find out more about Microsoft Azure and Serverless on https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/azure-functions/.

These articles got published during week one:

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  Azure Functions in the Enterprise

  marcroussy ・ Sep 8 '19

  #azure #serverless #functions
  Enterprise and line-of-business applications have been around since the dawn of the computer age. Traditionally, these types of applications have lagged behind in terms of adopting the latest technologies. And while that narrative is starting to change, there is still a way to go. In my article, I'll outline a few ways that Azure Functions can be useful to the enterprise or LOB developer, such as Experimenting with a new language in a low-risk way, making Logic Apps friendlier, automating maintenance and support checks and building Proof of Concepts.

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  Stateful Serverless with Durable Functions

  Christian Nwamba for Microsoft Azure ・ Sep 7 '19

  #azures #serverless #tutorial #webdev
  What makes Azure Durable Functions are powerful are their ability to remember the state of an API even after the request is complete. This means you can go back to the API at a later time and track how the state has evolved over time. A good example for this are building timers and notifications.

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  Tutorial: Build a Serverless API backend for Slack [part 1]

  Abhishek Gupta for Microsoft Azure ・ Sep 4 '19

  #serverless #tutorial #showdev #java
  In this tutorial, we will explore funcy - a Serverless webhook backend which is a trimmed down version of the awesome Giphy for Slack.

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  Large-Scale Serverless Machine Learning Inference with Azure Functions

  Anthony Chu for Microsoft Azure ・ Sep 5 '19

  #python #serverless #machinelearning #showdev
  How to run machine learning inferencing with Python Azure Functions. Walk through how to build a function that uses TensorFlow to classify photos and displays inferencing results in real-time. Demonstrate how Azure Functions scales out to handle increased load.

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  In March 2019 I created a Twitterbot which tweets about new releases related to Azure Functions repositories on GitHub. I'll cover how it is running in Azure, what I did to improve the resilience of the solution, which is built with Azure Functions & Durable Functions and how the application is monitored.

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  Leveraging the Dependency Injection support in Azure Functions

  Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬 for Microsoft Azure ・ Sep 3 '19

  #azure #dotnet #serverless
  .NET developers have been taking advantage of dependency injection (DI) to make their code easier to test and manage. The latest update to Azure Functions v2 now has support for registering services with DI. In this episode, Fabio Cavalcante from the Azure Functions team joins us to showcase how this feature works.

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