Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

Limited execution time

In a FaaS environment, the runtime of each particular function execution should be as short as possible.

Some vendors impose hard limits on the functions' execution time, limiting the runtime to a few minutes. These limits impose a certain style of programming, but can get cumbersome to deal with.

Azure Functions are offered under two different hosting plans: a Consumption plan and an App Service plan. The Consumption plan scales dynamically on-demand, while an App Service plan always has at least one VM instance provisioned. Because of the different approaches to resource provisioning, these plans have different execution constraints.

Under the App Service plan there is no limit on the function execution time.

Under ...