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Practical Serverless and Microservices with C#
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Practical Serverless and Microservices with C#

by Gabriel Baptista, Francesco Abbruzzese
July 2025
Intermediate to advanced
474 pages
10h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Background Functions in Practice

When you start working with cloud computing, especially while working with Platform as a Service (PaaS), one of the challenges you may encounter is how to enable background work if your solution is based on instances that require a request before processing. One of the answers to this problem is the use of serverless to process this background job. In Azure, you will find Azure Functions triggers that can help you with this.

In this chapter, we will discuss three of them: the timer trigger, Blob storage trigger, and queue storage trigger. It is important to mention that we covered their basics in Chapter 1, Demystifying Serverless Applications, but we will start to implement them now.

Together with their implementation, ...

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