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A. Satapathi, A. MishraHands-on Azure Functions with C#https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7122-3_3

3. What Are Triggers and Bindings?

Ashirwad Satapathi1   and Abhishek Mishra2
(1)
Gajapati, Odisha, India
(2)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
 

Azure functions are serverless components. They remain in an idle state whenever they are not doing any work. You need to invoke Azure functions so that they can wake up and execute the hosted code. Triggers define how the functions run. You can invoke Azure functions using triggers, and they provide all the necessary input data or the input payload for the function. Your Azure functions need to send or receive data from other ...

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