Chapter 6
Azure Functions
Overview
Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that provides on-demand access to infrastructures to run and scale applications dynamically. It eliminates the need to deploy, maintain, and manage servers in Azure, enabling organizations to focus on deploying and managing their application code.
You can use Azure Functions for trigger-based apps to:
Build web APIs for trigger-based actions.
Process bulk data streams.
Manage message queues.
Process IoT streams.
The back-end infrastructure resources are updated and managed completely by Microsoft. This frees up your organization to focus on your application code and the associated triggers. Developers can build and deploy code and allow Azure Functions to handle ...
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