Unlike other resources that target only programming communities, this book targets both programming and business communities. With programming models shifting more towards no-code and low-code, citizen programmers from the business side will welcome this book as a guide for how to design and optimize their information pipeline while lowering costs for infrastructure. Programmers, on the other hand, will welcome this book's business-centric programming view, which will get them a step closer to fulfilling real business requirements.Practical Spring Cloud Function touches on the themes of portability, scalability, high performance and high availability. Each theme is explored via a real enterprise use case and code. The use cases target industries including energy (oil pipeline sensors), automotive (event-driven connected vehicles), and retail (conversational AI).After reading this book, you'll come away with the know-how to build and deploy cloud-native Javaapplications effectively and efficiently.   What You Will LearnWrite functions and deploy to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and on-prem clouds such as VMWare Tanzu and RedHat OpenShiftSet up locally with KNative on Kubernetes, as well as on AWS, Azure, GCP, Tanzu, and othersBuild, test, and deploy a simple example with Spring Cloud FunctionDevelop an event-driven data pipeline with Spring Cloud FunctionIntegrate with AI and machine learning modelsApply Spring Cloud Function to the Internet of Things (IoT)Get industry-specific examples of Spring Cloud Function in actionWho This Book Is ForSoftware and cloud-native application developers with prior programming experience in the cloud and/or Spring Framework. DevOps professionals may find this book beneficial as well.