Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Understanding Serverless Architecture

This chapter provides a theoretical introduction into serverless computing, and the types of workloads it is best suited for.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• The features of serverless computing
• Serverless compute best practices
• Serverless computing advantages and disadvantages
• The types of services and applications that are a good fit for serverless

Being a technical person, you might be tempted to skip the theory and dive into practice. It is highly advised, however, that you read the next few pages before diving into implementation details.