This week, James is joined yet again by friend of the show Laurent Bugnion, who shows us how Azure Functions (serverless programming) can be used to create a backend for your Xamarin applications. We’ll see a super simple project first and then move on to a more “real life” application. Show Links: • Introduction to functions and Xamarin https://github.com/Azure-Samples/functions-xamarin-getting-started • CoinValue sample https://github.com/lbugnion/sample-azure-coinvalue • Docs about Azure functions http://gslb.ch/10 • Quickstart in the Azure Portal http://gslb.ch/c15s • Quickstart in Visual Studio http://gslb.ch/c16s • Twitter Link http://twitter.com/LBugnion Find James on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno GitHub: http://github.com/jamesmontemagno Blog: https://montemagno.com/ and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict: http://www.mergeconflict.fm/ Never Miss an Episode: https://twitter.com/thexamarinshow Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/c9-azurefree