Hands-on Azure Functions with C#: Build Function as a Service (FaaS) Solutions

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A. Satapathi, A. MishraHands-on Azure Functions with C#https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7122-3_1

1. Introduction to Azure Functions

Ashirwad Satapathi¹   and Abhishek Mishra²

(1)

Gajapati, Odisha, India

(2)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

 

Function as a service (FaaS) is getting more popular every day on all the major cloud platforms. With FaaS, you can build small chunks of code that run for a short time and host them on the FaaS cloud offering. You get billed for the time your function runs, and you do not need to bother about the hosting infrastructure and the scaling aspects.

Microsoft Azure provides Azure Functions as an FaaS offering. You build your function ...