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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating an Azure function

Azure Functions are usually small pieces of code that can be executed on Azure without us having to deploy a server. This solution is often called Function as a Service, or FaaS. For this reason, functions can also be seen as microservices or even nanoservices. They're lightweight and enable a small piece of functionality. Functions are based on Web Apps, as discussed in Chapter 6, Designing Web Applications. They even show in your Web Apps overview. However, functions aren't exactly the same as Web Apps, so they come with some limitations. For example, while Web Apps support logging to files, functions can only use Application Insights for monitoring, which we will discuss in Chapter 13, Diagnostics and Monitoring ...

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