In this chapter, we will walk through a Visual Studio development environment setup for Azure Functions, and also start developing the text sentiment application.
During the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Set up the development environment with Visual Studio 2017
- Set up the Azure Functions project
- Create a Function App with a sample text scoring function
- Deploy the application to Azure
- Set up the database to store the scoring results
- Set up a web-based dashboard to display the scoring results
- Tie the serverless compute, the database, and the web tiers together
By the end of this chapter, we will have a simple application comprised of the following components:
