December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Serverless computing is very cool, but it comes with some limitations as well. There is, of course, the aforementioned scaling limitations. Also, you'll have no control over your server. On one hand, this is very easy and convenient, but on the other hand, it poses some limitations, such as not being able to install any third-party applications you may need.
One of these applications may also be your actual runtime. Azure Functions supports C# and F# in .NET and .NET Core, JavaScript (with Node.js), Java, Python, and PowerShell Core. Other than that, version 1.x of the Azure Functions runtime had experimental support for various languages, such as Python and PHP, but those were dropped in version 2.x. ...